This week we played around with a command line interface in Linux through a remote desktop connection. Luckily, I had no trouble using the remote desktop connection. I expect my luck in the running smoothly department to run out eventually, but will enjoy it so long as I can. The command tutorials were interesting and reminded me of my first BASIC course in high school oh so many years ago. Initially it was very straightforward, but the level of complexity the commands can reach is really quite amazing and a bit daunting. The absolute and relative pathnames explanation made sense because again it related back to previous HTML experience. There are also lots of typing shortcuts which the writer recommends you use, but for someone like me who likes things to be very explicit the typing shortcuts save me not that much time in exchange for somewhat more confusion. I think I will type things out for now until things come to me more naturally. I also think alot of it will make more sense when we are actually using the commands for real work instead of playing around with files I didn't create and don't really understand. I am afraid to play around too much for fear of screwing something up I can't fix. I definitely think I need more practice with the input/output redirection and linking together multiple commands using pipes. The potential of all these commands is really cool, but like I said kind of daunting to a beginner...