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Text Editors: Potentially confusing VS Code installation command #29410

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gingkapls opened this issue Feb 13, 2025 · 3 comments
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Text Editors: Potentially confusing VS Code installation command #29410

gingkapls opened this issue Feb 13, 2025 · 3 comments

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gingkapls commented Feb 13, 2025 •
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The lesson has a command on how to install VS code on Linux and uses the -O flag to name the output file.

wget -O code-latest.deb 'https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable&os=linux-deb-x64

I've seen that learners often mix up -O (capital O) and -0 (zero) because of not being able to copy-paste the command and run into issues.

I think it would be a good idea to use the long option instead, as it would remove the source of confusion.

wget --output-document code-latest.deb 'https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable&os=linux-deb-x64

I do admit that there is more to type, which means a higher possibility of mistakes, but I believe it's still better than the -O -0 situation.

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I think this is a good suggestion, but would like someone on the @TheOdinProject/installations team to triple-check, since I am not very familiar with Linux.

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xandora commented Feb 14, 2025

I think we should probably just bring greater emphasis to the concept that learners should launch the website from their VM instead. This only really happens when people don't follow that instruction from earlier and try and copy/paste into the VM window from outside.

The occurrence of -o or -0 typos is probably not that much higher than those who forget the final ' (like your examples, by the way 😉) or introduce a typo somewhere else in the URL.

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I think we should probably just bring greater emphasis to the concept that learners should launch the website from their VM instead. This only really happens when people don't follow that instruction from earlier and try and copy/paste into the VM window from outside.

I think that's a good idea as well.
Do you have any suggestions on where it should be recommended? I think there are many places where learners are required to read and input commands, but reiterating it in all those places seems too redundant. It's already mentioned in the lesson on Installations, so should there be a single line to remind learners one last time to have the website opened in their VM in this lesson?

The occurrence of -o or -0 typos is probably not that much higher than those who forget the final ' (like your examples, by the way 😉) or introduce a typo somewhere else in the URL.

Dang it, hanging quotes won't leave me be!

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