Extended Unix and Computer Science Skills Tutorial

Workbook 1: The Command Line and How to Use it

This workbook covers:

• man pages
• Unix File Hierarchy
• How to Create, Manage, Read and Write Files

Workbook 2: Longer Lasting Fingers and other Good Things to Know

This workbook covers:

• Tab Completion
• Command History
• Wildcards
• I/O Redirection
• Aliases
• Remote Access (with SSH)
• Department Webpages

Workbook 3: Debugging

This workbook covers:

• What is a bug?
• How do we avoid bugs?
• How do we find bugs
• How do we use a debugger to help find bugs (with pdb and jdb)

Workbook 4: Version Control

This workbook covers:

• Philosophy of Version Control
• Introduction to git
• Using Version Control on Your Own
• Using Version Control with Others

Workbook 5: Regular Expressions

This workbook covers:

• Introduction to General Regular Expressions
• grep (how to find things in files)
• find (how to find files)

Workbook 6: Bash Scripting

This workbook covers:

• Bash Scripting (It's a big topic)
• Using Commands from Inside a Script
• Bash Flow of Control Commands

Library Workbook

This workbook covers:

• Where to find books in the physical world
• Where to find books though the library website
• What tools the library offers to help you
• How to get help from the library