CSE 459.11, Winter 2012

CSE 459.11:

The Unix Programming Environment

Winter 2012

Description

Students will learn how to use the UNIX programming environment effectively to orchestrate processes and find information in files using basic shell programming methods. In addition, students will learn programming basics for utilities such as grep and make.

Level and Credits

U 1 (one one-hour lecture)

Instructor

Di Cao (caod@cse.ohio-state.edu)

Meeting times

Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. - 9:18 a.m., Dreese Lab 0357

Course webpage

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~caod/cse45911/index.html

Newsgroup

cse.course.cse459.11

Office hours/location

DL 680.
Tuesday 9:30am - 10:30am or by appointment

Textbook

Unix Shells by Example [Online Version] , 4th Edition by Ellie Quigley

Grading

Course is graded pass/fail
4 labs

100 points total (25 points each)
70 points required to pass
Late Lab Penalties, 1 day = 10%, 2 days=25%, 3 days = 50%
No Exams!

Labs

Lab 1 (Due: Jan 31th )
Lab 2 (Due: Feb 14th )
Lab 3 (Due: Feb 28th )
Lab 4 (Due: Mar 12th )

Lecture Information (tentative schedule)

We will cover Chapters 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 4, 5, and 6 in the textbook UNIX SHELLS by Example.

Class Number	Topics	Slides (.ppt)
1 (Jan 3rd)	Introduction	Lecture1
2 (Jan 10th)	C Shell Filename Metacharacters, Handling Special Characters Input/Output Redirection, Building Complex Commands Shell Aliases	Lecture 2
3 (Jan 17th)	C Shell Shell Variables, Shell Command History, Job/Process Control, Directory Control	Lecture 3
4 (Jan 24th)	C Shell Programming Script Introduction, Shell Script Examples, Debugging C Shell Scripts	Lecture 4
5 (Jan 31th)	C Shell Programming More about shell script	Lecture 5
6 (Feb 7th)	regular expressions in UNIX, grep	Lecture 6
7 (Feb 14th)	grep continued, egrep	Lecture 7
8 (Feb 21th)	make	Lecture 8
9 (Feb 28th)	make	lecture 9 sample makefile
10 (Mar 7th)	sed	lecture 10

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