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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Start small. The key to learning something like Python, for many of us, is frequency, or repetition. The more you use it, the more you venture beyond your simple scripts, and eventually you're fixing bugs in someone else's apps, or building one of your own!
The best way to learn is to do. If you're keen to learn, open up a terminal and follow along with the lesson. It's not meant as a copy/paste solution for anything, so try working through the code samples. If you do that, I think you'll find yourself learning some valuable lessons.
Then again, maybe not. I've used this lesson in classes with great success, but teaching and learning styles differ. Luckily, there are many great shell scripting tutorials out there, including a great one right here on opensource.com by Wicked Cool Shell Scripts author Dave Taylor: https://opensource.com/article/16/12/calcshell-interactive-linux-comman…