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ULI101 Weekly Schedule

Revision as of 10:42, 12 November 2020 by Jason Michael Carman (talk | contribs) (Assignment 2 due date was incorrect, moved from Week 9 to Week 8.)



Week Objectives and Tasks Reference Assignment
Week 1:
  • Course introduction
  • Obtaining your Seneca accounts
  • *nix overview
  • Open source philosophy
  • Linux GUI and the terminal
  • The Matrix server
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

Links to Windows SSH clients (Access Matrix from home):

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 1:
  • Introduction to Unix Commands
  • Basic Unix Commands (Parts 1 - 3)
Week 2:
  • Unix file system
  • File types and file naming
  • Basic file system commands:
    (pwd,cd,tree,ls,mkdir,rmdir,mv,cp,rm, man)
  • Text editing
  • Common file utilities:
    (cat,more,less,touch,file,find)
  • Quiz 1 (4%)
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

Reference Sheets:

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 1:
  • Basic Unix Commands (Parts 4 - 6)
Week 3:
  • Absolute and relative pathnames
  • File name expansion
  • Shell basics
  • Command execution in detail
  • Recalling and editing previous commands
  • Quoting
  • Quiz 2 (4%)
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 1:
  • Directory Management
  • Practice Commands To Create A Directory Structure
  • Create A Directory Structure
  • Practice Specifying Path Names
Week 4:
  • Data Representation:
    (Binary, octal, decimal,
    and hexadecimal number systems)
  • Number conversions
  • Unix file permissions
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 2:
  • Practice Using The vi Text Editor
  • Permissions
Week 5:
  • stdin, stdout, stderr
  • Simple filter commands:
    (head,tail,cut,sort,tr,wc)
  • grep utility Redirection and piping
  • /dev/null file
  • Assignment 1 is due (10%)
  • Quiz 3 (4%)
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 2:
  • Redirection And Pipes
Week 6:
  • Sending email from command line
  • scp and sftp utilities
  • Midterm Test (25%)
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

YouTube Videos:

 
Study Week:
 
Week 7:
  • Filesystem links
  • Hard and symbolic links
  • Process management
  • Aliases
  • Command History
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 2:
  • Linking Files And Directories
  • Command Summary
  • Linux Processes
Week 8:
Regular expressions basics:
  • Literal matching
  • Character classes
  • . wildcard
  • * repetition symbol
  • Anchoring
  • Assignment 2 is due (10%)
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 3:
  • Regular Expressions Using grep
Week 9:
Introduction to Shell Scripting:
  • Introduction to Shell Scripting
  • Shell Variables
  • Positional Parameters
  • echo and read commands
  • if and test statements
  • for loop
  • Quiz 4 (4%)
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 3:
  • Interactive Shell Environment
  • Introduction To Scripting (phone)
  • More Scripting (add)
Week 10:
Text Manipulation:
  • Using the sed Utility
  • Using the Awk Utility
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 3:
  • sed and awk
Week 11:
Additional Shell Scripting:
  • if - elif - else
  • while
  • for
  • Start-up / Logout Files
  • Quiz 5 (4%)
Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX

Tutorials:

YouTube Videos:

Assignment 3:
  • Yet More Scripting (oldfiles)
Week 12:
Evaluation:
  • Assignment 3 is due (10%)
  • Final Test (25%)