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Unix Tools

Lecturer: Dr M.G. Kuhn

No. of lectures: 10

Operating Systems provides a useful foundation for this course.

Aims

This non-examinable course provides students with little Unix/Linux experience some important practical skills in using the Unix shell as an efficient working environment. It also introduces some popular software-engineering tools for working in teams, as well as formatting and data-analysis tools for preparing dissertations and scientific publications. These skills are essential not only for future practical CST projects, but for participating effectively in most real-world software projects.

Lectures

Objectives

At the end of the course students should

Recommended reading

* Lamport, L. (1994). LATEX - a documentation preparation system user's guide and reference manual. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
Robbins, A. (2005). Unix in a nutshell. O'Reilly (4th ed.).
Schwartz, R.L. & Phoenix, T. (2005). Learning Perl. O'Reilly (4th ed.).



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