This class meets every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM, except on University holidays or if I cancel class.
All dates in the following schedule are tentative, except those fixed by the University; if some topic listed here as taking one lecture in fact takes two lectures to cover adequately, or vice versa, the schedule will shift.
I expect you to have read the specified chapters in the textbook before the lecture that deals with that topic; this way I can concentrate my time on answering questions and clarifying subtle or difficult points in the textbook, rather than on reading the textbook to you, which will bore both of us. Please read the textbook!
| Date(s) | Assignment | Reading | Lecture Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Aug | Administrivia, accounts, & passwords | |||
| 1 Sept | 1--2 | What is an operating system? What is Unix? | ||
| 4 Sept | Labor Day --- no classes | |||
| 6 Sept | 3--4, (5?) | Logging in and out, etc. | ||
| 8 Sept | 6--7 | Basic Unix commands | ||
| 11 Sept | HW1 | 8--9 | Online documentation and command syntax | |
| 13 Sept | 10--11 | Command shells
Last day to add courses | ||
| 15 Sept | Shell scripts | |||
| 18 Sept | 19 | Text editors (ex, vi, emacs, sed, awk) | ||
| 20 Sept | 20--21 | The Unix file system | ||
| 22 Sept | More on the Unix file system | |||
| 25 Sept | Rosh Hashanah --- no classes | |||
| 27 Sept | HW2 | 22 | File-manipulation commands | |
| 29 Sept | More on file-manipulation commands
Last day to drop courses | |||
| 2 Oct | 12--13 | Basic Communication and the Net | ||
| 4 Oct | Yom Kippur --- no classes | |||
| 6 Oct | HW1 due | 14 | Electronic mail | |
| 9 Oct | 15--16 | Filters, pipes, and combining programs | ||
| 11 Oct | Review for midterm, catch up | |||
| 13 Oct | Midterm exam | |||
| 16 Oct | HW2 due | 17--18 | Discuss midterm; displaying and printing | |
| 18 Oct | The Shell-Program Interface | |||
| 20 Oct | More on the shell-program interface | |||
| 23 Oct | man pages | The stdio library | ||
| 25 Oct | More on stdio | |||
| 27 Oct | HW3 | man pages | Process control: fork, exec, wait
Last day to apply for May degree | |
| 30 Oct | man pages | More on process control | ||
| 1 Nov | man pages | Low-level Unix I/O calls | ||
| 3 Nov | man pages | More on Unix system calls
Last day to withdraw from courses | ||
| 6 Nov | man pages | The gdb debugger | ||
| 8 Nov | man pages | More on gdb | ||
| 10 Nov | HW3 due | man pages | The rcs version control utility | |
| 13 Nov | HW4 | man pages | More on rcs | |
| 15 Nov | The make compilation control utility | |||
| 17 Nov | man pages | More on make | ||
| 20 Nov | The flex scanner generator | |||
| 22 Nov | More on flex | |||
| 24 Nov | Thanksgiving break --- no classes | |||
| 27 Nov | Writing the shell with flex | |||
| 29 Nov | Still writing the shell with flex | |||
| 1 Dec | Still writing the shell with flex | |||
| 4 Dec | 23--25, man trn, news.announce.newusers | The Net | ||
| 6 Dec | The World Wide Web and browsers | |||
| 8 Dec | HW4 due | on-line help | HTML: writing your own Web pages | |
| 11 Dec | Review for Final Exam | |||
| 15 Dec | 10:30 AM--12:30 PM, Final Exam | |||
