Linux Fundamentals
Lectures
Time | Room | Lecturer | Date |
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Tue 14-16 | BK107 | Mikko Pervilä | 01.11.2011-01.11.2011 |
Wed 16-18 | BK107 | Mikko Pervilä | 02.11.2011-02.11.2011 |
Exercise groups
Time | Room | Instructor | Date | Observe |
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Tue 14-16 | BK107 | 07.11.2011—09.12.2011 |
Time | Room | Instructor | Date | Observe |
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Wed 16-18 | BK107 | 07.11.2011—09.12.2011 |
Information for international students
You can participate in the exercise sessions either in English or Finnish. The study diary can be returned in either English, Finnish, or Swedish.
General
This course is perfectly suited for those unfamiliar with the Department's Linux-based systems, or the command shell in general.
The exercises are based on the Bash command shell interpreter, but the techniques are easily portable to other interpreters as well.
Knowledge about shell scripting can be very useful in the experimental parts of your PhD studies.
Exercise sessions:
- Tue 14-16 BK107 except 8.11. at 16-18
- Wed 16-18 BK107
- working from home
During the first week, please attend just one of the exercise sessions!
The exercise tasks will be available from university's wiki, the address is http://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/582351/Home
Completing the course
Instead of lectures, students are led through a series of programming exercises. Each student returns a study diary, which will be used to highlight the key techniques learned during the course.
You can take the course with either 2 of 4 credits depending on the set of exercises completed.
If one is very proficient with Bash (do not take this for granted) , a student could probably finish the exercises by herself. The exercise sessions are not obligatory.
Literature and material
- man pages
- http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html - Advanced Bash Scripting guide