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Government Analysis Function and ONS Data Science Campus

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1 Learning Outcomes

This course will cover the basics needed to use the command line interface (CLI) on a computer. The learning objectives are:

  • To understand the importance of the command line interface (CLI) as a more powerful alternative to graphical user interfaces (GUI)
  • To navigate and manipulate directory structures
  • To be able to run scripts in the CLI
  • To write commands to allow the effective use of statistical programming languages and associated tools

You will need access to a command line interface in order to complete the exercises in this course.

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