Basic things you need to know in order to use your computer properly in the CompSci labs.
  • Start here
  • Keyboard
  • Command line
  • File system
  • Text files
  • Hardware

The file system

  • File contents
  • File names
  • File extensions
  • Directories and subdirectories
  • Root
  • Current directory
  • Parent directory
  • File paths
  • Absolute paths
  • Relative paths
  • Path separators
  • Moving around (cd)
  • Symbolic links
  • The desktop
  • Special filenames
  • Hidden files
  • Volumes
  • File managers
  • File permissions
  • More to think about
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