I considered adding in more commands but I wanted this article to be relatively short so that people aren’t overwhelmed. I talked to quite a few people before writing this and the main thing they wanted to know was what the command line IS, not the commands. You can find commands everywhere, but they wanted to hear in simple terms the purpose of the terminal. So the 3 commands were just to help in understanding the purpose.
Thanks for your suggestion though - maybe I’ll try to shorten the article so I can fit in a couple more.
Yes, I understand your approach and I think that mkdir and rm are things that most users will do outside of the command line (creating directories/folders and removing objects).
As such, learning that you can do those exact same things via the command line will make it more attractive and/or fascinating to those people because they will be used to using a GUI to perform those actions.
I think these can be added in and the article still be kept relatively short still.
Either way it's a good introduction.
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I considered adding in more commands but I wanted this article to be relatively short so that people aren’t overwhelmed. I talked to quite a few people before writing this and the main thing they wanted to know was what the command line IS, not the commands. You can find commands everywhere, but they wanted to hear in simple terms the purpose of the terminal. So the 3 commands were just to help in understanding the purpose.
Thanks for your suggestion though - maybe I’ll try to shorten the article so I can fit in a couple more.
Yes, I understand your approach and I think that
mkdirandrmare things that most users will do outside of the command line (creating directories/folders and removing objects).As such, learning that you can do those exact same things via the command line will make it more attractive and/or fascinating to those people because they will be used to using a GUI to perform those actions.
I think these can be added in and the article still be kept relatively short still.
Either way it's a good introduction.