OPS145 Weekly Schedule

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Reference	Evaluation
Week 1:	Objectives: Course introduction Course Resources/Evaluation/Policies Unix/Linux Background Open source philosophy Linux GUI and the terminal The Matrix server Accessing your Matrix Account Using your Matrix Account	Lab 1: Using Your Matrix Account Connect to Seneca's Student VPN VIDEO: Connect to Seneca's Student VPN Using a Linux Desktop Links to Windows SSH clients (Access Matrix from home): Putty	Tutorial 1: Worth 2% (Due Week 2: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Accessing Your Matrix Linux Account INVESTIGATION 2: Using The Linux Shell
Week 2:	Objectives: 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)	Lab 2: Unix / Linux File Management Reference Sheets: Nano Reference Sheet (PDF) Vi Reference Sheet (PDF)	Tutorial 1 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 2: Worth 2% (Due Week 3: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Creating & Managing Directories INVESTIGATION 2: Managing Text Files
Week 3:	Objectives: Absolute and relative pathnames File name expansion Shell basics Command execution in detail Command History Recalling and editing previous commands Quoting	Lab 3: Advanced File Management / Quoting Special Characters	Tutorial 2 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 3: Worth 2% (Due Week 4: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Absolute / Relative / Relative-To-Home Pathnames INVESTIGATION 2: Filename Expansion INVESTIGATION 3: Quoting Special Characters
Week 4:	Objectives: Data Representation: (Binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems) Number conversions Unix file permissions	Lab 4: Data Representation / Numbering Conversion / File Permissions	Tutorial 3 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 4: Worth 2% (Due Week 5: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Numbering Conversions INVESTIGATION 2: File Permissions
Week 5:	Objectives: stdin, stdout, stderr Simple filter commands: (head,tail,cut,sort,tr,wc) grep utility Redirection and piping /dev/null file	Lab 5: Redirection	Tutorial 4 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 5: Worth 2% (Due Week 6: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Basics Of Redirections INVESTIGATION 2: Redirection Using Pipeline Commands INVESTIGATION 3: Issuing Multiple Unix/Linux Commands
Week 6:	Objectives: scp and sftp utilities Sending email from command line Command History	Lab 6: File Transfer / Sending Email	Tutorial 5 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 6: Worth 2% (Due Week 8: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: File Transfer (Secure Copy) INVESTIGATION 2: File Transfer (Secure FTP) INVESTIGATION 3: File Transfer (Email)
Week 7:	Objectives: Course Review Evaluation: Midterm Test (20%)		Midterm Test (20%)
Study Week:	Objectives: No scheduled classes
Week 8:	Objectives: Filesystem links Hard and symbolic links Process management Aliases Command History	Lab 7: Linking Files / Managing Process / Aliases and Command History	Tutorial 6 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 8: Worth 2% (Due Week 9: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Linking Files INVESTIGATION 2: Managing Processes INVESTIGATION 3: Aliases / Command History
Week 9:	Objectives: Regular expressions basics: Literal matching Character classes . wildcard * repetition symbol Anchoring	Lab 8: Regular Expressions	Tutorial 8 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 9: Worth 2% (Due Week 10: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Simple & Complex Regular Expressions INVESTIGATION 2: Extended Regular Expressions INVESTIGATION 3: Other Commands Using Regular Expressions
Week 10:	Objectives: Text Manipulation: Using the sed Utility Using the awk Utility	Lab 9: Sed and Awk Utilities	Tutorial 9 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 10: Worth 2% (Due Week 11: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Using The SED Utility INVESTIGATION 2: Using The AWK Utility
Week 11:	Objectives: Introduction to Shell Scripting: Introduction to Shell Scripting echo and read commands Shell Variables Positional Parameters Command Substitution / Math Operations test statements if / elif-else statements for loop statements	Lab 10: Shell Scripting (Part 1)	Tutorial 10 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 11: Worth 2% (Due Week 12: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Creating A Shell Script INVESTIGATION 2: She-Bang Line / Variable / Parameters INVESTIGATION 3: Command Substitution / Math Operations INVESTIGATION 4: Control Flow Statements
Week 12:	Objectives: Additional Shell Scripting: if - elif - else statement for loop revisited while loop statement Error-Checking with Loops exit and break Statements export Command Start-up Files Further Study	Lab 11: Shell Scripting - Part 2	Tutorial 11 Due Friday @ Midnight Tutorial 12: Worth 2% (Due Week 13: Friday @ midnight) INVESTIGATION 1: Additional Logic Statements INVESTIGATION 2: Additional Looping Statements INVESTIGATION 3: exit AND break Statements INVESTIGATION 4: Using Start-Up Files
Week 13	Objectives: Interest Topic Take up Review Questions	Interest Topic: Interest Topic: Graphical Linux via a Virtual Machine (VM)	Tutorial 12 Due Friday @ Midnight Review Tutorial Due Friday @ Midnight '
Week 14:	Evaluation Week: Final Test (20%)		Final Test (20%)

Interest Topic: Graphical Linux via a Virtual Machine (VM)