Lectures

&bull Lecture 01:	Course overview
	Reading: Glass: Chapter 1 and 2
&bull Lecture 02-03:	The UNIX filesystem and shell intro
	Reading: Glass: Chapter 3
&bull Lecture 04-05:	Processes and filters
	Reading: Glass: Chapter 3; UNIX Bookshelf: UNIX Power Tools
&bull Lecture 06-07:	Regular expressions
	Reading: Glass 2nd Edition: Chapter 7. Glass 3rd Edition: Chapter 3
&bull Lecture 08-09:	Sed and Awk
	Reading: UNIX Bookshelf: Sed/Awk book; Glass Third Ed: Chapter 4 and 5
&bull Lecture 10-11:	Shell scripting, scripting examples
	Reading: UNIX in a Nutshell: Chapter 4; UNIX Bookshelf: Learning the Korm Shell; Glass Third Edition: Chapter 4, 5, 6 and 8
&bull Lecture 12:	More on ksh and bash.
	Reading: UNIX in a Nutshell: Chapter 4; UNIX Bookshelf: Learning the Korm Shell; Glass Third Edition: Chapter 4, 5, 6 and 8
&bull Lecture 13:	Midterm [solution]
&bull Lecture 14:	Go over midterm, discuss final projects
&bull Lecture 15:	CGI programming
	Reading: Glass 3nd Edition: Chapter 10. Glass 2nd Edition: Chapter 9
&bull Lecture 16:	Perl
	Reading: On-line Perl Tutorial; see also Perl 5 Reference Guide and Man Pages
&bull Lecture 17-18:	Perl Part II and Programming Tools
	Reading: Glass 2nd Edition Chapter 11, Glass 3rd Edition Chapter 12; Unix in a Nutshell: Chapters 18, 19 and 20
&bull Lecture 19-20:	Security
&bull Lecture 21-22:	Linux administration
&bull Lecture 23-24:	User interface and final review
	Reading: Glass: Chapter 1
&bull Lecture 27-28:	Weighted Unix Tools.

Textbooks

Required Texts

UNIX for Programmers and Users, 3rd edition (Feb 2003)
Glass & Ables
Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0130465534
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Recommended Texts

UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition (Nov 1999)
Arnold Robbins
O'Reilly & Associates
ISBN: 1565924274
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This book is an excellent reference. This book and several others are available online for free (from NYU IP Addresses), so purchasing a hard copy is optional.

Homework assignments