Learning Programming from Slides Sucks
I'm currently a semester into my software engineering degree which has been very interesting; albeit a little easier due to having more experience than a lot of my peers it would appear, but I really hate trying to learn programming concepts from slides and PDFs. Almost always there are characters that are not ASCII and this causes the program to be wrong but are impossible to tell just be reading the text (hyphens are the worst). Some units use this platform called Edstem which is much better because it has proper codeblocks to copy and refer to but some just use regular documents.
I've joined a student team called Monash DeepNeuron in their High Performance Programming branch who do some very cool things with supercomputers and even compete internationally!
However, in the current training where we are learning Bash and Linux the trainers are
using slides and there is often erroneous characters or characters we miss when copying
commands especially the . when referring to current directory which makes the training
very cumbersome as commands take a bit on the server we are training on. I've been using
WSL for a while now so its not too bad, I still get stuck sometimes, but it seems to be a
massive hindrance for the other trainees.
It'd be nice if there was a something like the Rust book the had to make this easier. I told this to the trainers, maybe they'll make something for the next round of recruits.