27th February

1

L0: Intro to the unit
L1: Open Source philosophy; Why Unix?; Some commands; Files

 

6th March

2

L2: Docker

Public Holiday Monday 6 March (no classes)
Labs begin this week.

13th March

3

L3: Files and Creating Your Own Scripts
L4: Processes

20th March

4

L5: Shell Variables (including useful ones provided by the Shell); Literate Programming!

PROSH Wed. 22 March. No lecture.
Start work on Assignment 1

27th March

5

L6: Command Exit Status and if statement; Antibugging!,
L7: Globbing, case statement to test alternative pattern, for loop to work through files

Sample in-semester quiz from 2022
Answers to sample in-semester quiz from 2022

3rd April

6

L8: While shift; All against all
L9: Shell arithmetic is rudimentary; find - Unix's gift to vague people

Public Holiday Fri 6 April (Good Friday)

10th April

   

17th April

7

L10: Regular expressions

In semester quiz during the Monday lecture slot.
No labs this week.
Quiz Instructions

24th April

8

Look over the test.
L11: Sed - a powerful on-the-fly text editor
New:Debugging

Assignment 1 due Monday 24 April 11:59pm
Tuesday 25 April Public Holiday (Anzac Day)

1st May

9

L12: Version control: Git and GitHub
L13: Starting Awk

Start work on Assignment 2

8th May

10

L14: Further Awk
L15: Urk .. Morawk

No. Really. Start work on Assignment 2

15th May

11

L16: Shell functions, and Make and Makefiles

22nd May

12

L17: Markdown (not examinable, but look anyway)
Q and A

Assignment 2 due 11:59 Mon 22 May
Sample final exam (from 2022)
Answers to sample final exam (from 2022)