Study Guides

Midterm 2 study guide

Final study guide

Assignments

Weather GIF assignment

Cowsay assignment

Zero-fill assignment

COURSE MATERIALS

Syllabus

Introduction (HTML format)

Introduction (PDF format)

General utilities in detail (HTML format)

General utilities in detail (PDF format)

Highlights of the filesystem (HTML format)

Highlights of the filesystem (PDF format)

"The" shell (HTML format)

"The" shell (PDF format)

Bash (HTML format)

Bash (PDF format)

Bash, continued (HTML format)

Bash, continued (PDF format)

Program development: Makefiles (HTML format)

Program development: Makefiles (PDF format)

Program development: Source debugging (HTML format)

Program development: Source debugging (PDF format)

Numerical Tools (PDF format)

Numerical Tools, part 2 (PDF format)

Other Material

Linux-oriented websites:

LWN

2008-09-02: Really, really small ELF binaries: A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux

2008-09-11: A classic article on TeX: TeX: A Non-Review by Herbert S. Wilf (This is located at JSTOR, so you will need to use a campus network to read this article.)

2015-09-16: A really, really large example of a Bash script: Testssl, from https://www.testssl.sh

2019-01-11: The DECSYSTEM-20 at Columbia University 1977-1988

2019-01-16: Bash cheat sheet

2020-02-19: Interview with Richard Hipp