| Week |
Objectives and Tasks |
Labs |
Week 1:
5 - 8 september
(monday is a holiday)
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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
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Course Introduction |
Week 2:
11 - 15 september
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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
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Lab 1 |
Week 3:
18 - 22 september
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Linux terminal
- Why a terminal is useful, and used all the time.
- Command arguments; revisit ls
- Hidden files
- 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, tree/find, rm, mv, cp 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.
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Lab 2 |
Week 4:
25 - 29 september
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Paths, symbolic links
- root directory
- Absolute paths
- Relative paths
- Your home directory
- Relative-to-home paths
- Revisit ls, cat, less, pwd, mkdir, rm, mv, cp with more complicated paths
- Creating and using symbolic links
- echo $PWD, export
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Lab 3 |
Week 5:
2 - 6 october
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Wildcards, quotes
- *
- ?
- Single & double quotes to work with filenames with spaces
- Back-quote does something else
- Revisit ls, cat, mkdir, rm, mv, cp with spaces and special characters
- Mismatched quotes
- Quotes to work with filenames with special characters, and other quotes
- Variables in single, double quotes
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Lab 4 |
Week 6:
10 - 13 october
(monday is a holiday)
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Catch-up week |
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Week 7:
16 - 20 october
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Evaluation |
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Study Week:
23 - 27 october
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Week 8:
30 october - 3 november
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Standard input/output/error
- New commands: grep, head, tail, wc
- Every Linux application has STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR
- Redirect STDOUT to file
- Redirect STDERR to file
- Redirect STDERR to /dev/null
- Many commands can read from STDIN. E.g.: cat, less, tar, grep, head, tail
- The STDOUT from one command can be piped to the STDIN of another
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Lab 5 |
Week 9:
6 - 10 november
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Binary, permissions, boolean logic
- What is binary and why it matters
- Representing numbers from 0 to 255 as bits in a byte
- Representing numbers from 0 to 7 in 3 bits
- User, group, others permissions for files
- User, group, others permissions for directories
- Practice using file and directory permissions
- Binary AND/OR
- Running multiple commands at the same time with
;, &&, || |
Lab 6 |
Week 10:
13 - 17 november
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SSH, SCP
- Create an account on ops345.ca for ssh practice
- The "server" concept
- Using ssh to control a remote Linux server
- Remote credentials don't need to match local credentials
- Permissions work the same way, they apply to the user who is logged in
- Practice with permissions on files you own and files you don't own
- Copy files between Linux machines using scp
- Copy directories
- Note how ownership applies to files transferred between systems
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Lab 7 |
Week 11:
20 - 24 november
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Trivial shell scripting
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Lab 8 |
Week 12:
27 november - 1 december
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Lab 9 |
Week 13:
4 - 8 december
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Review week |
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Week 14:
11 - 13 december
(wednesday is last day)
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Exam |
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