Faculty member(s) proposing change: Zhenhai Duan

Other Faculty involved in teaching this course or who have particular 
interest in its contents: David Whalley and Randolph Langley (as I know)

Course Information:
 	Course Number: COP 4342
 	Course Title: Unix Tools

Current Textbook Information
 	Title: Unix Power Tools
 	Author: Powers, et al
 	Publisher: O'Reilly
 	Date Published: 2003
 	URL: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003302.do
 	ISBN#: 978-0-596-00330-2

Porposed new textbook information
 	Title: A practical guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell
 		Programming
 	Author: Mark G. Sobell
 	Publisher: Prentice Hall
 	Date Published: 2013
 	URL: http://www.pearson.ch/1471/9780133085044/Practical-Guide-to-Linux-Commands.aspx
 	ISBN#: 9780133085044

Motivation:
Please discuss the reasons for proposing the new textbook. Describe what 
aspects of the current book you find unsuitable. Describe what aspects of 
the new book will improve the course, comparing the current textbook with 
the proposed text.

The new textbook is better organized, and covers most of the topics 
required for this course in greater details. The current book is a good 
reference book, covers many topics, but it is less structured.

-- 
Zhenhai Duan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~duan/
Tel: 850-645-1561