Suggestions for Beginners
Your computer account is important!
Since most of the courses you take at NC State University and almost any
job you get when you leave NC State will require you to use a computer, everything
you learn now about computers should make things much easier in the future.
If you are nervous about computers, try to remember that computers do
only what you ask them to do and that just about anything you could possibly
do "wrong" can
be undone.
Ask people around you for help.
Everyone has been a beginner at some time, so don't feel self-conscious about
asking questions. Do really learn from other people so you
never have to ask the same question twice. And, when someone asks you for
help, remember what it was like to be a beginner.
Try things out.
You can't physically hurt the computer if you make a typo, enter the wrong
command or close the wrong window.
Stay motivated.
Everyone has problems while first learning something. You may have difficulties
with the first few documents you write and email messages you send. Things
will get easier as you get used to using the computer.
Go to the Unix Workstation Guide.
Content last updated May, 2004, by daniel
Page last modified
June 15, 2005
by cawalker
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