Some points we discussed:

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Provide students with USB drives with the setup

• Use a virtual machine

trollet as an alternative for emacs

Try to get students to come to class with laptops and go through installation

• Need to have time to dedicate an entire section (or 2!)

Record demo for LKB

• Use YouTube Series of videos?

  • Whenever you learn something yourself, consider recording it

Motivate the long instructions

• Emphasize the step by step approach: do the homework as you are reading the instructions

Problem: people are scared of command line and simplistic UI

• How to solve?..