Course Forum

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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 19, 2018). [Slides].
  What is a computer? Why do we care?
• Class 2: What is inside a Computer?. (Sep 20, 2018). [Slides].
  Hardware, CPU, RAM, HD
• Class 3: Representing things with numbers. (Sep 26, 2018). [Slides].
  Memory, Files and Documents
• Class 4: Bits & Bytes. (Sep 27, 2018). [Slides].
  Also, how to study better
• Class 5: First steps on UNIX. (Oct 3, 2018). [Slides].
  Introduction to Command Line Interface
• Class 6: Second step on UNIX. (Oct 4, 2018). [Slides].
  Introduction to Command Line Interface
• Class 7: Using UNIX in your computer. (Oct 10, 2018). [Slides].
  Introduction to Command Line Interface
• Class 8: Looking inside files. (Oct 11, 2018). [Slides].
  Connecting to servers. Redirecting standard output
• Class 9: Redirection of Standard Input and Output. (Oct 17, 2018). [Slides].
  Replacing keyboard and screen by regular files. Connecting the output of a process with the input of the next one
• Class 10: Processes, Jobs, and Permissions. (Oct 18, 2018). [Slides].
  Wildcards, file modes, background processes
• Class 12: Other useful UNIX commands. (Oct 25, 2018). [Slides].
  Measuring disk space. Selecting, sorting and counting data from text files
• Class 13: UNIX Variables. (Nov 14, 2018). [Slides].
  Configuring your session
• Class 14: Regular Expressions. (Nov 14, 2018). [Slides].
  How to look for complex text patterns
• Class 15: Miscellany. (Nov 21, 2018). [Slides].
  Several details
• Class 16: Intro to AWK. (Nov 22, 2018). [Slides].
  Smarter Processing
• Class 17: AWK assignments. (Nov 28, 2018). [Slides].
  Smarter Processing
• Class 18: AWK internal variables. (Nov 29, 2018). [Slides].
  Changing the behavior of AWK
• Class 19: Quiz 2. (Dec 5, 2018). [Slides].
  Practice using AWK
• Class 20: AWK functions and loops. (Dec 7, 2018). [Slides].
  Also, solution of Quiz 4
• Class 21: Quiz 3. (Dec 12, 2018). [Slides].
  Practice using AWK
• Class 22: AWK arrays. (Dec 12, 2018). [Slides].
  Practice using AWK
• Class 23: Quiz 4. (Dec 19, 2018). [Slides].
  Practice using AWK
• Class 24: Final class. (Dec 20, 2018). [Slides].
  Practice using 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.

Bibliography

• Brian W. Kernighan. 2011. “D is for Digital: What a Well-Informed Person should Know about Computers and Communications”. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, USA.
• Timeline of Computing

On line material

• 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