OSL640 Weekly Schedule

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Reference	Tutorial (Lab)
Week 1: Jan 9-13	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 Evaluation: Tutorial 1 (Due Friday, March 10 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%)	Week 1 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX Links to Windows SSH clients (Access Matrix from home): SSH/SFTP | Putty | Bitvise SSH Client | MovaXterm	Tutorial 1 - Using Your Matrix Account
Week 2: Jan 16-20	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 2 (Due Friday, March 10 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%)	Week 2 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX Reference Sheets: Nano Reference Sheet (PDF) Vi Reference Sheet (PDF)	Tutorial 2 - Unix / Linux File Management
Week 3: Jan 23-27	Objectives: Absolute and relative pathnames File name expansion Shell basics Command execution in detail Recalling and editing previous commands Quoting Evaluation: Tutorial 3 (Due Friday, March 10 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%)	Week 3 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 3 - Advanced File Management / Quoting Special Characters
Week 4: Jan 30 - Feb 3	Objectives: Data Representation: (Binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems) Number conversions Unix file permissions Evaluation: Tutorial 4 (Due Friday, March 10 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%) Quiz 1 (6.6%)	Week 4 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 4 - Data Representation / Numbering Conversion / File Permissions
Week 5: Feb 6-10	Objectives: stdin, stdout, stderr Simple filter commands: (head,tail,cut,sort,tr,wc) grep utility Redirection and piping /dev/null file Evaluation: Tutorial 5 (Due Friday, March 10 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%)	Week 5 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 5 - Redirection
Week 6: Feb 13-17	Objectives: scp and sftp utilities Sending email from command line Evaluation: Tutorial 6 (Due Friday, March 10 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%)	Week 6 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 6 - File Transfer / Sending Email
Week 7: Feb 20-24	Objectives: Linux Installation Methods Linux Installation Considerations Virtualization System Administration Commands: (su,sudo,visudo,ping,dnf) Evaluation: Tutorial 7 (Due Friday, April 21 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%) Quiz 2 (6.6%)	Week 7 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 7 - Installing Linux / Live Linux / Virtualization Project
Study Week: Feb 27 - Mar 3	Objectives: No scheduled classes
Week 8: Mar 6-10	Objectives: Filesystem links Hard and symbolic links Process management Aliases Command History Evaluation: Tutorial 8 (Due Friday, April 21 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%) Test 1 (15%)	Week 8 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 8 - Linking Files / Managing Process / Aliases and Command History
Week 9: Mar 13-17	Objectives: Regular expressions basics: Literal matching Character classes . wildcard * repetition symbol Anchoring Evaluation: Tutorial 9 (Due Friday, April 21 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%)	Week 9 Lecture Notes: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 9 - Regular Expressions
Week 10: Mar 20-24	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 10 (Due Friday, April 21 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%)	Week 10 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 10 - Shell Scripting - Part 1
Week 11: Mar 27-31	Objectives: Text Manipulation: Using the sed Utility Using the awk Utility Evaluation: Tutorial 11 (Due Friday, April 21 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%)	Week 11 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 11 - SED & AWK
Week 12: Apr 3-7	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 12 (Due Friday, April 21 @ 11:59 PM) (2.5%)	Week 12 Lecture Slides: PDF | PPTX	Tutorial 12 - Shell Scripting - Part 2
Week 13: Apr 10-14	Objectives: Presentations Evaluation: Quiz 3 (6.6%) Presentation (20%)
Week 14: Apr 17-21	Objectives: Presentations Evaluation: Presentation (20%) Report Due (15%)