Console Academy

Learn the real terminal, free and risk-free

Step-by-step courses with the integrated terminal: every exercise grades itself while you practice on a virtual system. Nothing to install, no sign-up.

First time? Start with the Basic Linux Course: it is the base for everything else. When you finish it, continue with Intermediate and Windows.

Basic Linux Course

From zero to console fluency: 24 lessons that grade themselves while you practice, with the built-in terminal.

Start
12 modules24 lessonsAbout 6 hAutomatic grading
1 · Your first session
2 · Moving around
3 · Create and organize files
4 · Reading documents
5 · Searching
6 · Pipes and redirection
7 · Permissions
8 · Users and admin
9 · Environment
10 · Networking
11 · Packages and backups
12 · Your first scripts

Intermediate Linux Course

The next level: fine permissions, search, text, processes, services, disks, users, networking, SSH, scripts and maintenance. 24 self-grading lessons on the built-in terminal.

Continue
12 modules24 lessonsAbout 8 hAutomatic grading
1 · Fine permissions and ACLs
2 · Deep search
3 · Text and pipelines
4 · Processes and signals
5 · Services and logs
6 · Disks and mounts
7 · Users and groups in depth
8 · Networking and diagnostics
9 · SSH and firewall
10 · Packages and backups
11 · Real scripts
12 · Boot and maintenance

Windows course (CMD and PowerShell)

Windows console from zero to administration: files, network, processes, services, users, disks and PowerShell, with 17 self-grading guided lessons.

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17 lessonsCMD + PowerShellAutomatic grading

Command manual

The console reference: every command with its syntax, options, examples and common mistakes. To check while you practice.

See the manual

Advanced Linux

DHCP, DNS, servers and storage: real administration practice on the simulator.

Coming soon

Programming (Python, PHP and more)

Your first steps coding, with self-grading exercises.

Coming soon

How it works

  1. 1.Pick a lesson from the syllabus and read the briefing.
  2. 2.The integrated terminal walks you through each step with the simulator's real commands.
  3. 3.Each step is validated against the virtual disk: get it right and you move on, with cascading hints if you don't.
  4. 4.Your progress is stored in your browser. Finish all 24 lessons and you know base bash.
What it is and where it ends
  • Lessons grade against a simulated system in your browser: it never touches your computer or network.
  • Progress lives in your browser (localStorage); no accounts, no servers.
  • It covers LPIC-1 base practice (103.x and 104.x), without replacing the official certification.