CommLineLit:About
About This Website
The CommLineLit section of this wiki was developed by Sean O’Brien at the University of Connecticut, as part of the M.A.Ed. program in Educational Technology. It incorporates ideas from the Online Reading Comprehension Assessment with Blog (ORCA-Blog) and utilizes a chmod tutorial to teach command line literacy.
User Accounts
To edit this wiki you must request an account, since we've been spammed too often already :/
Help
Our help section is a great resource for wiki editors. Technical issues concerning this website (e.g. broken links) should be directed to Sean O'Brien.
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Dave Eisenberg's chmod Tutorial is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike license. Jeroen Vermeulen's chmod Calculator requires proper attribution for use (see code for details).
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