OSL640 Weekly Schedule

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Week	Objectives and Tasks	Reference	Tutorial (Lab)
Week 1:	Objectives: Course introduction Course Resources/Evaluation/Policies Unix/Linux Background Open source philosophy Linux GUI and the terminal The Matrix server Accessing your Matrix Account Using your Matrix Account	Week 1 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX Resources: HOWTO: Access Your Matrix Account (Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX) Links to Windows SSH clients (Access Matrix from home): SSH/SFTP | Putty | Bitvise SSH Client | MovaXterm	Tutorial 1 - Using Your Matrix Account
Week 2:	Objectives: 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) Evaluation: Tutorial 1 (Due Friday @ midnight) Quiz 1	Week 2 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX Reference Sheets: Nano Reference Sheet (PDF) Vi Reference Sheet (PDF)	Tutorial 2 - Unix/Linux File Management
Week 3:	Objectives: Absolute and relative pathnames File name expansion Shell basics Command execution in detail Recalling and editing previous commands Quoting Evaluation: Tutorial 2 (Due Friday@ Midnight)	Week 3 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial 3: 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:	Objectives: Data Representation: (Binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems) Number conversions Unix file permissions Evaluation: Tutorial 3 (Due Friday @ midnight) Quiz 2	Week 4 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial4: Tutorial 4: 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:	Objectives: stdin, stdout, stderr Simple filter commands: (head,tail,cut,sort,tr,wc) grep utility Redirection and piping /dev/null file Evaluation: Tutorial 4 (Due Friday @ midnight) Assignment 1 (10%): (Due by Friday at 11:59 PM) Quiz 3	Week 5 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial 5: 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:	Objectives: scp and sftp utilities Sending email from command line Evaluation: Tutorial 5 (Due Friday @ midnight) Midterm: Test 1 (20%)	Week 6 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial 6: File Transfer / Sending Email Tutorial 7: Installing Linux / Live Linux / Virtualization (Possible Bonus Mark (Depending on ULI101 Instructor's Grading Rules) Les Czegel's Week 6 Notes (HTML) YouTube Videos: SSH, SCP and Other Network Tools Changing Resolution in Knoppix
Study Week:	Objectives: No scheduled classes
Week 7:	Objectives: Filesystem links Hard and symbolic links Process management Aliases Command History Evaluation: Tutorial 6 (Due Friday @ midnight)	Week 7 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial 8: Linking Files / Managing Process / Aliases and Command History Les Czegel's Week 8 Notes YouTube Videos: Processes and Jobs Aliases Links	Assignment 2: Linking Files And Directories Linux Processes Command Summary
Week 8:	Objectives: Regular expressions basics: Literal matching Character classes . wildcard * repetition symbol Anchoring Evaluation: Tutorial 8 (Due Friday @ midnight) Assignment 2 (10%): (Due by Friday at 11:59 PM)	Week 8 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial9: Regular Expressions Linux Practice - Regular Expressions Les Czegel's Week 9 Notes YouTube Videos: Grep Regex Using df/du	Assignment 3: Regular Expressions Using grep
Week 9:	Objectives: Text Manipulation: Using the sed Utility Using the awk Utility Evaluation: Tutorial 9 (Due Friday @ midnight)	Week 9 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial11: Awk and Sed Utilities Les Czegel's Week 11 Notes YouTube Videos: Sed Awk	Assignment 3: sed and awk
Week 10:	Objectives: Introduction to Shell Scripting: Introduction to Shell Scripting echo and read commands Shell Variables Positional Parameters Command Substitution / Math Operations test statements if / elif-else statements for loop statements Evaluation: Tutorial 11 (Due Friday @ midnight) Quiz 4	Week 10 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial10: Shell Scripting (Part 1) Les Czegel's Week 10 Notes YouTube Videos: Bash Shell Scripting I	Assignment 3: Interactive Shell Environment Introduction To Scripting (phone)
Week 11:	Objectives: Additional Shell Scripting: if - elif - else statement for loop revisited while loop statement Error-Checking with Loops exit and break Statements export Command Start-up Files Further Study Evaluation: Tutorial 10 (Due Friday @ midnight) Quiz 5	Week 11 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX Tutorials: Tutorial 12: Shell Scripting (Part 2) Les Czegel's Week 12 Notes YouTube Videos: Bash Shell Scripting II	Assignment 3: More Scripting (add) Yet More Scripting (oldfiles)
Week 12:	Objectives: Take up Review Questions Work on Assignment #3 Evaluation: Tutorial 12 (Due Wed @ midnight) Tutorial 7 (BONUS): (Due Wed @ midnight) Assignment 3 (10%): (Due by Thursday at 11:59 PM) Final: Test 2 (20%)	Review Questions: Sample ULI101 Review Questions