Give Us the Url and Wipe Away the Debt

I found this week’s lesson to be the most enjoyable one so far. I feel like I’m finally getting the hand of the basic commands and how they function in the linux ecosystem. During the class this past week, I got caught up just prior to the bursting section, but I managed to figure out the issue and catch up before the end. For all the complexities and correcting that went on in class, by the end I felt good about the material.

Already this year I’ve found much better ways of searching through databases and online collections, and so I anticipate being able to make good use of these new tools. I’m sure with the way my thesis is coming together, I’ll be wanting to download these massive amounts of documents. Standard searching often causes problems, so being able to write your own script to find the documents you want based on your own knowledge of the sources is extremely useful.

On a more direct note, I’ve been having trouble the past few weeks trying to go through the lessons after the class on the classroom computers. I’ve had trouble trying to pull the files in and use them in the scripts. I try to practice throughout the week, so if I could get some advice on that, that’d be great.

-Will