From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 17:58:31 GMT-3
At 9:03 AM -0700 7/26/03, Brian Dennis wrote:
>I would not spend time learning what the absolute shortest way to type
>one command is over another when preparing for the lab. If you type "in
>r f0/1 -24" and someone else types "int range fa0/1 - 24" it's not going
>to matter. Being very solid with the technologies and knowing how to
>configure/troubleshoot them off the top of your head is going to be what
>matters in the lab.
>
>Brian Dennis, CCIE #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security)
Brian, I agree with your basic premise about what's important. With
command line interfaces in general, not just IOS, I tend to use full
commands, but I'm also a fast and accurate typist.
I see two reasons to play with aliases:
one, you really are typing-challenged
two, it helps you learn the commands. In high school, one of my
more useful study methods was to prepare a cheat sheet, and then
leave it at home. The value of creating that sheet was to force me
to concentrate on the critical information.
I also learned a study method that may be hard to visualize without a
picture, but could be useful to some people.
Take a sheet of notebook paper and draw about a double-width left
margin and a vertical line at the right margin. During a class or
book reading, take the notes in the center column.
Either as you go or as a second pass, make cross-references,
abstractions, etc., in the left margin, tying the text to other
knowledge.
As a third pass, turn the notebook 90 degrees and write a summary of
the page in the right margin. For final review, hold the notebook
sideways and review the summaries.
Obviously, this was all before hypertext/
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