Draft: The beast

Intro lecture(s) for course.

assigned to @m300575

mentioned in merge request !6 (merged)

@k202134 is the plan to "finish" the lecture in the MR and only then merge? Either way we should discuss how to proceed, but I guess that this is the plan for our meeting today

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I like the general outline so far

The only thing we might discuss at some point is the fine line between lectures and exercises. For example, the SSH config could be an exercise while the lecture explains a bit more about the concept in general.

Should we meet beginning of next week to talk about this in person?

I created a second feature branch the-command-line which tries to have a more generic approach guiding the user from their own machine towards levante

Nice way of getting them there.

I'd still like to add a word on x11 forwarding, as this is pretty handy in a lot of cases. One other thing we should probably touch is ssh-agents (and password-protected keys)

Also I'd really like to get them to use an IDE, but this could also go into a different lecture (best practices / ...). emacs is a fine ide, vi as well, vs code does a lot of magic, and they should really get used to using these things.

Maybe we can make it more of a "communicating with computers"? Then we can keep the nice shell->ssh intro, but also keep some other things related to communicating with the machines...

The development of this MR is continued in !15 (merged)

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