CSE 459.11, Winter 2011

CSE 459.11:

The Unix Programming Environment

Winter 2011

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

Wei Jiang (jiangwei@cse.ohio-state.edu)

Meeting times

Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. - 9:18 a.m., Dreese Lab 0266

Course webpage

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

Newsgroup

cse.course.cse459.11

Office hours/location

DL 778.
Wednesday: 14:30 -- 15:30 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: Feb 1st )
Lab 2 (Due: Feb 15th )
Lab 3 (Due: Mar 1st )
Lab 4 (Due: Mar 13th )

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 4th)	Introduction	Lecture1
2 (Jan 11th)	C Shell Filename Metacharacters, Handling Special Characters Input/Output Redirection, Building Complex Commands Shell Aliases	Lecture 2
3 (Jan 18 th)	C Shell Shell Variables, Shell Command History, Job/Process Control, Directory Control	Lecture 3
4 (Jan 25th)	C Shell Programming Script Introduction, Shell Script Examples, Debugging C Shell Scripts	Lecture 4
5 (Feb 1st)	C Shell Programming More about shell script	Lecture 5
6 (Feb 8th)	regular expressions in UNIX, grep	Lecture 6
7 (Feb 15th)	grep continued, egrep	Lecture 7
8 (Feb 22th)	make	Lecture 8
9 (Mar 1st)	make	lecture 9 sample makefile
10 (Mar 8th)	sed	lecture 10

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