[sevensor]

It's definitely good when you can make the time and space to build up all the concepts from scratch. In retrospect, I should have done this with my last trainee. Smart person, fast learner, but so many pieces were missing. The worst thing was being deeply hesitant to do anything at a command prompt. There's only so far you can get if everything you do is mediated by a GUI. If I had it to do over, I would have forbidden IDE use for the first month. I think it was deeply damaging.

[atemerev]

Yes, that’s what I do — forbid the use of IDEs (they only become indispensable for large projects, and we don’t do anything large-scale yet).

This is an excellent gamified CTF to learn the ins and outs of UNIX command line: http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ . I usually require my students to reach at least level 10 to pass, and everybody liked it so far.

[moveax]

Nice, i got hooked up the same second i started and needed to force me stopping.

Good Link.

[sevensor]

That looks fun! I'll run through it myself and see what it covers.