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Slides used in classes

Some material is presented only on the blackboard, so you need to take good notes on classes to improve your learning. We recommend taking notes with pen and paper using the Cornell Method.

• Class 1: Why “Computing Science” in Science Faculty?. (Sep 26, 2019). [Slides].
  What is a computer? Why do we care?
• Class 2: First steps on UNIX. (Sep 26, 2019). [Slides].
  Introduction to Command Line Interface
• Class 3: Operating systems. (Oct 3, 2019). [Slides].
  Introduction to Command Line Interface
• Class 4: Creating folders and files. (Oct 3, 2019). [Slides].
  Introduction to Command Line Interface
• Class 5: Reading Text Files. (Oct 10, 2019). [Slides].
  Seeing what is inside each file.
• Class 6: Finding text. (Oct 10, 2019). [Slides].
  Finding text with grep, standard input and standard output.
• Class 7: Redirection and pipes. (Oct 17, 2019). [Slides].
  Connecting standard input and standard output.
• Class 8: Processes, Jobs, and Permissions. (Oct 17, 2019). [Slides].
  Wildcards, file modes, background processes
• Class 9: Other useful UNIX commands. (Oct 24, 2019). [Slides].
  Measuring disk space. Selecting, sorting and counting data from text files. Also, practice for midterm exam
• Class 10: UNIX Variables. (Oct 31, 2019). [Slides].
  Configuring your session
• Class 11: Regular Expressions. (Nov 21, 2019). [Slides].
  How to look for complex text patterns
• Class 12: Intro to AWK. (Nov 28, 2019). [Slides].
  Smarter Processing
• Class 13: Miscellany. (Nov 28, 2019). [Slides].
  Several details
• Class 14: AWK assignments and conditions. (Dec 5, 2019). [Slides].
  Smarter Processing
• Class 15: AWK internal variables. (Dec 12, 2019). [Slides].
  Changing the behavior of AWK
• Quiz. (Dec 12, 2019). [Slides].
  Practice using AWK
• Class 16: AWK functions and loops. (Dec 19, 2019). [Slides].
  for loops, predefined functions.
• Class 17: AWK arrays. (Dec 19, 2019). [Slides].
  Practice using AWK
• Quiz 2. (Dec 19, 2019). [Slides].
  Practice using AWK

On line material

• Timeline of Computing

• Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous

• A Command Line Crash Course and Resources there

• Google “Learn Unix Command Line”

• If you use windows, please download Git Bash for Windows

• See also Windows Subsystem for Linux

• Take a look at Microsoft Cloud Servers

• Regular-Expressions.info

  • Tutorial
  • Examples
  • Regular Expressions Quick Start

• Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises. Good examples

• Regex Tutorial

• For testing: https://regex101.com/

• Regex tutorial — A quick cheatsheet by examples

• A Crash Course In AWK. Event-based Programming

• Common threads: Awk by example (by IBM)

  1. An intro to the great language with the strange name
  2. Records, loops, and arrays
  3. String functions and … checkbooks?

• Awk - A Tutorial and Introduction - by Bruce Barnett - The Grymoire!

• 30 Examples for Awk Command in Text Processing

• AWK one-liner collection

• Learn X in Y minutes, Where X=awk

Attendance

By regulation from the Rectory, students need to attend at least 70% of the classes. The attendance book is updated every week and can be seen in Google Sheets. Please check it and verify if it is right.