Class 1: Monday, January 22nd

• Course Description
• Textbook
• What Happens in Class
• Course Work
• Making the Class Interesting
• Taking Notes
• Laptops
• Attendance
• Who Am I
• Do You Have Enough Time to Do the Work for This Course?
• Learn to Read Carefully
• Course Documents
• Grading Policy
• Late Work
• Accommodations for Disabilities
• Classroom Behavior
• Cheating
• Class Discussion Area
• Office Hours
• Contacting Me
• First Class Exercise
• First Homework Assignment
• First Reading Assignment

Class 2: Wednesday, January 24th

• 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
• Ubuntu
• Shells
• Unix Commands
• Today's Class Exercise

Class 3: Monday, January 29th

• Class Exercises
• The Command Line
• The Unix script Command
• The Editor Used in This Class
• The nano Text Editor
• Correcting Mistakes on the Command Line
• Retrieving Your Last Command
• 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
• Class Exercises
• Using script in Homework 2

Class 4: Wenesday, January 31st

• Special Characters
• Quoting and Escaping
• cd - Change Directory
• pwd - Show Your Current 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