Computer Laboratory – Course material 2007–08: Elementary Use of the Unix Teaching Service

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Elementary Use of the Unix Teaching Service

Lecturer: Mr R.J. Stibbs

No. of lectures and practicals: 3 + 8

Aims

The aims of the course are to introduce the participants, who are not expected to have any previous knowledge of Unix, to the PWF Linux system and to give them enough basic knowledge to equip them to understand further courses and, if needed, to use the PWF Linux system for exercises and dissertation work.

Lectures

The three 2-hour sessions cover various aspects of Unix and Unix utilities. Considerable use is made of live demonstrations.

Objectives

At the end of the course students should

be familiar with the use of the system for email communication
be familiar with the use of Unix utilities for file-handling and archiving
have the ability to understand and write bash scripts
have created their own web pages on the system