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Before starting these tutorials, I'd suggest going through and making sure you have a basic background in these things, since it'll make all our lives much easier. I'm trying to make these tutorials so that someone who's never seen a computer before (but has access to one now) could go through them, even without access to an XO.

Computer/internet experience

You should be able to...

  • Turn on a computer
  • Use a mouse or touchpad
  • Type (it doesn't have to be fast)
  • Log into the computer
  • Find files on your computer
  • Copy, move, and rename files
  • Start and shut down a program (any program)
  • Connect to the internet
  • Open a web browser and go to a web page if the address is given to you - for instance, http://wiki.laptop.org - and to click on a link to go to a new page
  • Put a CD, SD card, and/or USB thumbdrive into a computer and access the files on it
  • Log out of the computer
  • Shut down the computer

How to learn

You'll need to have access to a physical computer to do these things; the best way to learn these skills is probably to have somebody show you, and then try to work through the list yourself. It will probably take 1-3 hours to get comfortable with this.

Programming experience

Linux experience

A willingness to try the hacker ethos

Asking questions

Sharing knowledge

Trying things you don't know

Things I don't assume

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