Class 1: Tuesday, January 27th

• Course Description
• This Course Requires Work
• Textbook
• Unix Account
• Course Work
• Software Needed for the Course
• Laptops
• Phones
• Attendance
• Recorded Class Meetings
• Course Documents
• Grading Policy
• Exams and Your Grade
• Late Work
• Email Notification
• Gradescope
• If You Fall Behind See Me
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Accommodations for Disabilities
• Classroom Behavior
• Academic Integrity
• Reputation
• Academic Honesty
• Honesty Expected In This Class
• What Happens If You Are Caught Cheating?
• Use of Artificial Intelligence Programs
• Class Discussion Area
• Class Assistant
• Making the Class Interesting
• Taking Notes
• The Most Important Thing to Learn in This Class
• Learn to Read Carefully
• Who Am I
• Do You Have Enough Time to Do the Work for This Course?
• Your Mental Health
• Getting Enough Sleep
• Office Hours
• Academic Support Programs
• Other UMB Services
• Contacting Me
• First Class Exercise
• First Homework Assignment

Class 2: Thursday, January 29th

• Opening Remarks
• Connecting to the Linux Machine from Home
• Operating Systems
• Components of the Operating System
• Unix
• Different Unix Releases
• GNU and the Free Software Foundation
• Linus Torvalds
• Linux Distributions
• Why is Linux So Popular?
• Ubuntu
• Shells
• Unix Commands
• Today's Class Exercise

Class 3: Tuesday, February 3rd

• Some Skills Only Come With Work
• Class Exercises
• Getting Help
• Describing a Problem
• Don't Use Screenshots in Piazza
• The Command Line
• The Unix script Command
• The Editor Used in This Class
• The nano Text Editor
• Retrieving Your Last Command
• Correcting Mistakes on the Command Line
• Stopping a Running Program
• Using Options with Unix Commands
• Getting Help with Unix Commands
• The System Manual
• The info System
• Searching for a Keyword with apropos
• Getting Help from the Internet
• Homework Directories
• Using script in Homework 2

Class 4: Thursday, February 5th

• Use Flash Cards to Prepare for Graded Quizzes
• Always Check Your Work
• Special Characters
• Quoting and Escaping
• pwd - Show Your Current Directory
• cd - Change Directory
• ls - List the Contents of a Directory
• cat - Print the Contents of a File
• rm - Delete a File
• mkdir - Create a Directory
• rmdir - Delete a Directory
• cp - Copy Files
• mv - Move a File or Directory

Class 5: Tuesday, February 10th

• Importance of Exams
• Preparing for Exams
• Shell Scripts for Homework Assignments
• Scripts for Class Exercises
• Do Not Fall Behind in This Course
• Read the Homework Assignments Carefully
• Working with More than One Window
• Shell Scripts
• echo - Print Text to the Terminal
• hostname - Print the Name of Your Host Machine
• Pagers - View a File One Screen at a Time
• Pathname Completion
• grep - Finding Strings inside Files
• head - View the Top of a File
• tail - View the Bottom of a File
• sort - Print a File in Sorted Order