CSCI 57 and 65: Introduction to Unix Courses

Lab Homepage - Spring 2004

TA: Todd Lisonbee
email: toddj@ecst.csuchico.edu

Dr. Luk's Homepage http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~luk/

CSCI 057 - Introduction to the UNIX Operating System
This course is designed as a comprehensive introduction to the UNIX operating system for computer science and computer information systems majors. It leads the student through logging in, introductory and advanced levels of the visual editor (vi), file management, the directory structure, how UNIX handles files and processes, job control, process monitoring, shell scripts, basic shell utilities, and power utilities. 2.0 hours discussion, 2.0 hours activity.

CSCI 065 - Using the UNIX Operating System
For non-majors. This is a basic introduction to the UNIX operating system. Students learn the fundamental skills of logging into the system, using the visual editor, UNIX utilities, and file management. Subjects include directory structure, how the system handles files and proceses, and shell scripts. 2.0 hours discussion, 2.0 hours activity.

Lab Assignments

Week	Date	Labs Assigned	Assignments Due
1	1/28	lab 1 - get a Unix Account (details given in lab)
2	2/4	lab 2 - learn some basic commands and access your account using ssh and ftp (details given in lab)	lab 1 hard copy (worth 5 points)
3	2/11	lab 3 - bash, aliases, pico, printing	lab 2 hard copy (worth 10 points)
4	2/18	lab 4 - permissions, chmod, chown, redirecting input/output to/from files, pine	lab 3 hard copy printed from lab (10 points)
5	2/25	lab 5 - vim	lab 4 hard copy printed from lab (10 points)
6	3/3	lab 6 - whereis, grep, locate, find, first script	lab 5 hard copy (10 points)
7	3/10	lab 7 - watch Revolution OS video	lab 6 (10 points), lab 7 (10 points)
	3/17	Spring Break
8	3/24	lab 8 - gzip, gunzip, tar, zip, compress, bzip2, md5sum, bash functions
9	3/31	Ceasar Chavez Day (Wed) - No lab Tuesday or Wed.	CSLUG is having a Linux Install Fest this day in OCNL 254, 12-6pm. see linux extra credit
10	4/7	lab 9 - process control, ps, bg, fg, kill, killall, top, pstree, jobs, nice, renice, etc	lab 8 hard copy (10 points). lab 9 - done in class, role will be taken (10 points)
11	4/14	lab 10 - Network utilities: ping, traceroute, whois, ftp, dig, nslookup, lynx, wget, host, hostname, ifconfig, netstat
12	4/21	lab 11 - Scripting	lab 10 hard copy (10 points)
13	4/28	lab 12 - More Scripting (also, see scripting extra credit )	lab 11 hard copy (5 points) lab 12 - done in class, role will be taken (5 points)
14	5/5	lab 13 - Introduction to GNU Emacs This is the final day for lab, everything for lab is due. Nothing accepted after this week.	lab 13 - done in class, role will be taken (10 points) Linux Extra Credit hard copy (worth 10 extra-credit points) Scripting Extra Credit hard copy (worth up to 10 extra-credit points) This is the final day for lab, everything for lab is due. Nothing accepted after this week.
15	5/12	(dead week)
	5/19	Finals Week

Grades

No late assignments will be accepted.
There will be between 7 and 15 lab assignments plus possibly extra-credit lab assignments
Each lab assignment will be worth between 5 and 20 points.
A lab grade will be determined from the lab assignments at the end of the semester
Attendance will affect your grade as some labs will be done during lab time and there will most likely not be an opportunity to make them up later.
Information will be provided during lab time that is not covered in the book. Without this additional material it may not be possible to complete some labs.
Labs are due at the beginning of the lab they are due unless otherwise stated.

Groups

None of the labs (unless otherwise stated) should be done in groups.
All work should be done independently.