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
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Lab 2
Week 4:
25 - 29 september
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Lab 3
Week 5:
2 - 6 october
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Lab 4
Week 6:
10 - 13 october
(monday is a holiday)
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Lab 5
Week 7:
16 - 20 october
Evaluation
  • Midterm test
Study Week:

23 - 27 october

Week 8:
30 october - 3 november
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Lab 6
Week 9:
6 - 10 november
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Lab 7
Week 10:
13 - 17 november
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Lab 8
Week 11:
20 - 24 november
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Lab 9
Week 12:
27 november - 1 december
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Lab 10
Week 13:
4 - 8 december
Review
Week 14:
11 - 13 december
(wednesday is last day)
Exam