CIS 90 (Spring 2016) Calendar

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11/27

Class and Linux Overview

  • Understand how this course will work
  • Overview of computers and UNIX/Linux
  • Learn how to login via ssh
  • Learn first UNIX/Linux commands

Materials

Supplemental

  • Howto #144: Logging into Opus (download)

Assignment

CCC Confer

 1.1-1.15
(Gillay)

2,4,5,
p113-115,
p164-172
(Hahn)		 
22/3

Quiz 1

Commands

  • Understand how the UNIX login operation works
  • Meet John the Ripper and learn how vulnerable a poor password is
  • Understand basic command syntax and operation
  • Understand program files and what happens when they are run
  • Understand how the shell works and environment variables
  • Understand how to get online documentation

Materials

Assignment

CCC Confer

 2.3-2.7
2.11
3.7-3.20
4.19-4.22
9.1-9.2
(Gillay)		 Lab 1

Student Survey
 2/6 Last day to add CIS 90    
32/10

Quiz 2

Electronic Mail

  • Learn how to use the UNIX communication tools write and /bin/mail
  • Overview on end-to-end email

Materials

Supplemental

Assignment

CCC Confer

  Lab 2
42/17

Quiz 3

The UNIX File System

  • Become familiar with the UNIX file hierarchy
  • Be able to navigate the hierarchy using cd, ls and pwd commands
  • Understand the key elements of a file
  • Be able to distinguish the different UNIX file types
  • Learn appropriate commands to view file contents

Materials

Assignment

CCC Confer

 2.1
2.10
2.17
4.1
4.8
4.11-4.12
(Gillay)

24
p659-669
(Hahn)		 Lab 3

5 posts
52/24

Quiz 4

Review

  • Review lessons 1-4
  • Practice skills
  • Learn about filename expansion characters

Materials

Assignment

CCC Confer

  Lab 4
63/2

Test #1

Managing Files

  • Creating
  • Copying
  • Moving
  • Renaming
  • Removing
  • Linking

Materials

Assignment

CCC Confer

 5
8.4
8.13-8.16
(Gillay)

25
p715-729
p740-746
(Hahn)		 
73/9

Quiz 5

File Permissions

  • Viewing and configuring
  • Users (owners), groups and others
  • Inode information
  • Effect on commands
  • File creation defaults

Materials

Assignment

CCC Confer

 8
(Gillay)

25
p729-738
(Hahn)		 Lab 5
83/16

Quiz 6

Input/Output Processing

  • stdin, stdout, stderr
  • Redirection
  • Filters and tees
  • Searches using find and grep commands
  • Pipes

Materials

Assignment

Extra Credit Lab

CCC Confer

 7
(Gillay)

15
(Hahn)		 Lab 6

5 posts
93/23

Quiz 7

Review

Materials

Assignment

CCC Confer

  Lab 7
 3/30

Spring Break

   
104/6

Test #2

UNIX Processes

  • Definition
  • Lifecycle
  • Process information
  • Job control
  • Signals
  • Load balancing

Materials

Assignment

CCC Confer

 9
(Gillay)		 
114/13

Quiz 8

Editing with vi

  • Moving around the file
  • Reading and writing
  • Input mode
  • Cut, copy, paste
  • Miscellaneous

Materials

  • Presentation slides (download)
  • Reference sheet (vi)

Assignment

CCC Confer

 6
(Gillay)		Lab 8
124/20

Quiz 9

The Shell Environment

  • Variables
  • Environment
  • .bash_profile
  • .bashrc

Materials

Assignment

CCC Confer

 9
(Gillay)		 Lab 9

5 posts
134/27

Quiz 10

Printing and Shell Scripting

  • . and exec commands
  • Shell Scripting
  • UNIX printing

Materials

Assignment

Extra Credit Lab

CCC Confer

 9
(Gillay)		Lab 10
145/4

More Shell Scripting

  • More Shell Scripting
  • scp command
  • tar command

Materials

Assignment

CCC Confer

 10
(Gillay)		 
155/11

File Transfer and Review

  • Filezilla
  • pscp and scp
  • Make your own Opus
  • Project presentations

Materials

Assignment

  • Practice Test for Final (canvas)

CCC Confer

 10
(Gillay)		Project
 5/16

Test #3 (the final exam)

Time

  • MONDAY 7:00AM - 9:50AM in Room 828

Materials

CCC Confer

  5 posts
Lab X1
Lab X2

* All assignments are due by 11:59PM (Opus time) on the date indicated. Late work is not accepted.