OPS145 Weekly Schedule Newversion

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Note: Each professor will indicate the due dates for labs, tests and assignments for their sections. This schedule is a general guideline for week-by-week content.

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Labs
Week 1: 5 - 8 september (monday is a holiday)	Course introduction Professor introduction How to be successful. Grades don't matter, hard work does. A bad start will almost always lead to a bad finish. Hardware requirements, laptop strongly recommended Course policies What is a computer What is software, source code What is open source Different Licences and why they matter Short Linux history Linux distributions Who uses Linux	Course Introduction
Week 2: 11 - 15 september	Workstation setup Virtualization Install VirtualBox and a Linux Mint Workstation VM. Including GuestAdditions. Work in full screen. Make snapshots, and backups. Experiment with system settings, applets Firefox for web browsing Thunderbird - connect to student email Installing extra software File manager Graphical text editor Terminal ls, cat, less, cd How to submit labs in this course	Lab 1
Week 3: 18 - 22 september	Linux terminal Why a terminal is useful, and used all the time. Command arguments; revisit ls man pages: search techniques, scrolling, quitting Never ever use Ctrl+z for any reason. Ctrl+c and wait, or close the terminal if that doesn't work. pwd, mkdir, rm, mv, cp, less and their common arguments Case sensitivity for file names, command arguments wget, tar to extract sample files and directory structures Command history, history command Reading error messages. They're not always obvious, and on rare occasions they are plain wrong. Minimal vi: modes, move cursor, save and exit, exit without saving.	Lab 2
Week 4: 25 - 29 september	Paths root directory Absolute paths Relative paths Revisit pwd, mkdir, rm, mv, cp with more complicated paths	Lab 3
Week 5: 2 - 6 october	'	Lab 4
Week 6: 10 - 13 october (monday is a holiday)	'	Lab 5
Week 7: 16 - 20 october	Evaluation Midterm test
Study Week: 23 - 27 october
Week 8: 30 october - 3 november	'	Lab 6
Week 9: 6 - 10 november	'	Lab 7
Week 10: 13 - 17 november	'	Lab 8
Week 11: 20 - 24 november	'	Lab 9
Week 12: 27 november - 1 december	'	Lab 10
Week 13: 4 - 8 december	Review
Week 14: 11 - 13 december (wednesday is last day)	Exam