ULI101 Weekly Schedule

Winter 2020

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Reference	Assignment
Week 1: Jan 6-12	Course introduction Obtaining your Seneca accounts *nix overview Open source philosophy Linux GUI and the terminal The Matrix server	Week 1 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial 1: Access Your Matrix Account HOWTO: Access Your Matrix Account (Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX) Les Czegel's Week 1 Notes (HTML) Links to Windows SSH clients (Access Matrix from home): SSH/SFTP | Putty | Bitvise SSH Client | MovaXterm YouTube Videos: Connecting to Matrix Using SSH Client, Starting Assignments,Running UBUNTU Within Windows 10	Assignment 1: Introduction to Unix Commands Basic Unix Commands (Parts 1 - 3)
Week 2: Jan 13-19	Unix file system File types and file naming Basic file system commands: (pwd,cd,tree,ls,mkdir,rmdir,mv,cp,rm, man) Text editing Common file utilities: (cat,more,less,touch,file,find)	Week 2 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial2: Unix / Linux File Management Les Czegel's Week 2 Notes (HTML) Reference Sheets: Nano Reference Sheet (PDF) Vi Reference Sheet (PDF) YouTube Videos: Linux File System, Basic Navigation: (ls, cd, pwd, tree),Absolute and Relative Paths Basic File Actions (touch, ls -l, cp, cp -r, mv, mkdir, mkdir -p, rm, rmdir, rm -r), Relative-to-home Paths Reading/Writing to Files: (cat, more, less, man, date, diff, diff -y, find, wc)	Assignment 1: Basic Unix Commands (Parts 4 - 6)
Week 3: Jan 20-26	Absolute and relative pathnames File name expansion Shell basics Command execution in detail Recalling and editing previous commands Quoting	Week 3 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial3: Advanced File Management / Quoting Special Characters Les Czegel's Week 3 Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: Filename Expansions Relative, Absolute, and Relative-to-Home Filepaths Quoting Special Characters	Assignment 1: Directory Management Practice Commands To Create A Directory Structure Create A Directory Structure Practice Specifying Path Names
Week 4: Jan 27-Feb 2	Data Representation: (Binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems) Number conversions Unix file permissions	Week 4 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial4: Tutorial4: Data Representation / Numbering Conversion / File Permissions Les Czegel's Weel 4 Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: Permissions, chmod, umask	Assignment 2: Practice Using The vi Text Editor Permissions
Week 5: Feb 3-9	stdin, stdout, stderr Simple filter commands: (head,tail,cut,sort,tr,wc) grep utility Redirection and piping /dev/null file	Week 5 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial5: Redirection Les Czegel's Week 5 Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: Reading/Writing to Files (stdin, stdout, stderr, >, >>, 2>)	Assignment 2: Redirection And Pipes
Week 6: Feb 10-16	Sending email from command line scp and sftp utilities Basic Linux system administration	Week 6 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial6: File Transfer / Sending Email Les Czegel's Week 6 Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: SSH, SCP and Other Network Tools Introduction to Vim
Week 7: Feb 17-23	Evaluation: Live Linux Linux Installation Considerations Linux Administration Midterm Test (30%)	Week 7 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX
Study Week: Feb 24-Mar 1
Week 8: Mar 2-8	Filesystem links Hard and symbolic links Process management	Week 8 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Les Czegel's Week 8 Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: Processes and Jobs Aliases Links	Assignment 2: Linking Files And Directories Command Summary Linux Processes
Week 9: Mar 9-15	Regular expressions basics: Literal matching Character classes . wildcard * repetition symbol Anchoring	Week 9 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Les Czegel's Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: Grep Regex Using df/du	Assignment 3: Regular Expressions Using grep
Week 10: Mar 16-22	Shell Configuration Files Introduction to Shell Scripting Shell Variables Positional Parameters echo and read commands if and test statements for loop	Week 10 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Les Czegel's Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: Introduction to Bash Scripting Bash Scripting II	Assignment 3: Interactive Shell Environment Introduction To Scripting (phone) More Scripting (add)
Week 11: Mar 23-29	Extended Regular Expressions egrep vi sed awk	Week 11 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Les Czegel's Week 11 Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: Sed Awk	Assignment 3: sed And awk
Week 12: Mar 30-Apr 5	Additional Scripting: if - elif - else while for	Tutorials: Les Czegel's Week 12 Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: x x	Assignment 3: Yet More Scripting (oldfiles)
Week 13: Apr 6-12	Review
Exam Week: Apr 13-17