Linux Fundamentals
2-4
Networking and Services
Intermediate studies
No lectures. Students are led through a series of programming sessions aimed to familiarize shell scripting and the most common utility programs. The course is aimed for students who are previously unfamiliar with or who need a refresher of the shell environment. The goal is to learn basic and advanced scripting skills and understand the program design philosophy of Linux and other UN*X-like operating systems. Prerequisites: Programming in C. No separate exams.
| Year | Semester | Date | Period | Language | In charge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | autumn | 31.10-16.12. | 2-2 | English | Samu Varjonen |
Ilmoittautuminen tälle kurssille alkaa tiistaina 4.10. klo 9.00. Kaikki ilmoittautuvat jonotusryhmään! Kurssin osanottajamäärä on rajoitettu 40 opiskelijaan.
Information for international students
NOTE the course registration is closed due to the popularity of the course. We ended up taking double the intended number of students to the course.
NOTE. The course is not about fundamentals of Linux. Whatever that would be, digging into kernel and compiling drivers.
The course is about serious BASH scripting and using the traditional GNU command line tools (such as cat cut tr grep find etc).
In this sense, the course name can be explained as follows. It's "UNIX fundamentals", but UNIX is registered trademark and whatnot, so we were scared to use that name. UNIX has a philosophy: "small programs that can be strung together through a command line interpreter using pipes". That can is one fundamental of UNIX, and that's what we will be doing: combining the small programs into greatness. In this process, BASH is just a tool we choose to use.
So if you think you're entering a course about Linux administration, you're not. There's another course for that.
Thank you & welcome!
General
Paja
is on Tuesdays 12–16 @ B221That's where you show to ask questions about hard stuff.
Exercises
are on separate wiki pages: https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/linuxfun2013/Lifu+2016
Week 1: No exercise deadline but start doing the first week.
Week 2: Week 1 DL 8.11.
Week 3: Week 2 DL 15.11.
Week 4: Week 3 DL 22.11.
Week 5: Week 4 DL 29.11.
6.12 NO PAJA
Week 6: Week 5 DL 13.12.
Week 7: Week Extra DL 20.12. (no PAJA today)