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	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 File manager Terminal How to submit labs in this course	Lab 1
Week 3: 18 - 22 september	'	Lab 2
Week 4: 25 - 29 september	'	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