Reading Assignments

CS 279 - Introduction to Linux
Section 10 - CRN 43313 - MW 9:00-10:20am
Fall 2022

Last modified: Thursday, December 1, 2022

Important Notes:

• This is an experiment, to see if a page with the reading assignments as they are made is useful (and if I can manage to keep it updated throughout the semester...!) Your comments and suggestions regarding this experiment are welcome.

• Mentioned during Week 14 Lecture 2, November 30, 2022:
  • Chapter 58 - Scheduling: has useful material on crontab, at, and batch; in 2021 partial rewrite of course text, http://linux-training.be/linuxtraining_20211003.pdf, "Linux FUNdamentals", Paul Cobbaut
  
  
• Mentioned during Week 14 Lecture 1, November 28, 2022:
  • Two still-working (as of 2022-11-28) references I found useful regarding what is meant by load averages:
    • https://superuser.com/questions/23498/what-does-load-average-mean-on-unix-linux
    • http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2006/03/13/unix-load-averages-explained/
  
  
• Mentioned during Week 10 Lecture 2, October 26, 2022:
  • The Linux Documentation Project, "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide", Chapter 27, "Arrays":
    https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/arrays.html
  
  
• Assigned during Week 9 Lecture 1, October 17, 2022:
  • Read Part II, Chapter 19, Sections 19.1, 19.2: has SOME of the BRE material, in 2021 partial rewrite of course text, http://linux-training.be/linuxtraining_20211003.pdf, "Linux FUNdamentals", Paul Cobbaut
  
  
• Assigned during Week 8 Lab, October 13, 2022
  • Read Part II, Chapter 16, "Shell file globbing", in 2021 partial rewrite of course text, http://linux-training.be/linuxtraining_20211003.pdf, "Linux FUNdamentals", Paul Cobbaut
  
  
• Assigned during Week 4 Lecture 2, September 14, 2022
  • Read Part III, Chapter 24, regarding shell variables, MISNAMED "Scripting loops" (because it includes branching control structures as well as loops!!), in 2021 partial rewrite of course text, http://linux-training.be/linuxtraining_20211003.pdf, "Linux FUNdamentals", Paul Cobbaut
  
  
• Assigned during Week 3 Lecture 2, September 7, 2022
  • Read Part II, Chapter 13, sections 13.1 - 13.5, regarding shell variables, in 2021 partial rewrite of course text, http://linux-training.be/linuxtraining_20211003.pdf, "Linux FUNdamentals", Paul Cobbaut
  
  
• Assigned during Week 1 Lab, August 25, 2022
  • Read Part I, Chapters 5 and 6, "Directories" and "Files", in 2021 partial rewrite of course text, http://linux-training.be/linuxtraining_20211003.pdf, "Linux FUNdamentals", Paul Cobbaut
  
  
• Assigned during Week 1, Lecture 1, August 22, 2022
  • Read the CS 279 Course Syllabus (in tagged PDF)

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