Schedule Intro to Unix for Engineers

Topics

Week	Topic	In Class	Raymond	Robbins	Shaw
8/27	Introduction	Installation, aptitude, man	1	3	through Ex. 4
9/03	The Unix Shell	tmux, shell variable expansion	2,3.2.8	4–5	through Ex. 9
9/10	The filesystem	bag-of-bytes, find, chmod	3–3.1.9,3.2.2,3.2.4	2	through Ex. 14
9/17	Text files, vi	emacs, text encoding, why text?	5,15.2	9	through Ex. 19
9/24	Regex	grep, Regex in python	8.1–8.2.2	7	through Ex. 24
10/01	sed, awk, bash		8.2.8	10–11	through Ex. 26
10/08	review for midterm	Midterm on 10/10			through Ex. 28
10/15	group meetings		4		through Ex. 31
10/22	C++ in the Unix Environment	emacs as an IDE	14		through Ex. 38
10/29	Make	other uses of make	15.4	16	through Ex. 41
11/05	Process Management in C++	multiprogramming strategies	7		through Ex. 43
11/12	Debugging	gdb, valgrind	15.6		through Ex. 46
11/19	Thanksgiving break	optional reading	11,12,20
11/26	Rule of Diversity	haskell, python and C++ examples			through Ex. 48
12/03	Rule of Representation		9		through Ex. 50
12/10		Peer Review: Final Projects

Due	Title	Optional	Points
ongoing	Weekly entry questions	Y	10
ongoing	Weekly quizzes		60
ongoing	Blog (send URL by 9/5)	Y	100
ongoing	>= 10 LUUG/CSec meetings	Y	50
9/05	Command School		30
9/05	short response: GNU,Posix		30
9/12	Python parsing	Y	30
9/19	Python multiply		40
10/3	Python inventory management		50
10/10	online midterm exam		80
11/07	Make a `Makefile`		30
11/21	simple fork/exec	Y	30
11/26	Futures paper	Y	100
11/26	Everyone’s a Poet		20
12/02	C++ process object	Y	50
12/12	Final Project (group)		100
12/19	write an assignment	Y	60
12/19	Final Project reviews		30

Total Points: 900