Summary
Summary
The bulk of what we’ve looked at this week is about getting help, and
in terms of the way that you as a student spend your time, emphasizing
this topic seems like the right choice. While you still might default to
using web searching to find answers to the questions that you have,
hopefully you’ve both learned some new skills for how to do web
searching (like limiting results to certain sites with the
site: option), but also realized just how much the help you
can get on the command line in the manual pages, even if they are hard
to parse.
You should now be able to:
- Get help about a command by running the command.
- Get help about a command by reading manual pages.
- Find and assess the quality of help online.
- Use a web-based interactive notebook to document progress in a lab notebook.
Now you should be ready to start working on the assignment this week!