I finished it last night and wrote a "review" in a mailing list, so I'm just gonna copy that "review" I sent last night if anyone's trying to figure out whether or not they should take this course:
I just finished it. It took me less than half an hour.
It was OK until I finished the 75% of the course. The last 25% were pretty repetitive: use nano to edit your bash config (they used .bash_profile as a config file), type something in it, close nano and use source to set the source of your bash config. I had to execute that same process at least five times and every single time the terminal session restarted so I couldn't use up and down keys to navigate between previous commands, so I had to type them again every single time. Plus there were constant bugs in the interface so I had to manually scroll the left sidebar to see the next task in like every challenge.
All in all, you're right, very basic, thorough, and a bit repetitive at the end. Nothing really left a wow effect to me, but I knew how to use 95% of those commands. Others might find it more useful.
P.S. I'm kind of surprised that they chose nano as a text editor. I expected vi, but I'm guessing they chose nano because it's more beginner-friendly.
I just finished it. It took me less than half an hour.
It was OK until I finished the 75% of the course. The last 25% were pretty repetitive: use nano to edit your bash config (they used .bash_profile as a config file), type something in it, close nano and use source to set the source of your bash config. I had to execute that same process at least five times and every single time the terminal session restarted so I couldn't use up and down keys to navigate between previous commands, so I had to type them again every single time. Plus there were constant bugs in the interface so I had to manually scroll the left sidebar to see the next task in like every challenge.
All in all, you're right, very basic, thorough, and a bit repetitive at the end. Nothing really left a wow effect to me, but I knew how to use 95% of those commands. Others might find it more useful.
P.S. I'm kind of surprised that they chose nano as a text editor. I expected vi, but I'm guessing they chose nano because it's more beginner-friendly.