Courses

CS 318: Unix Tools

Objective

To teach students to use the programming tools and utilities available under Unix.

Pre-Conditions

Post-Conditions
(Topics)

[1 week] Unix file system, simple shell commands, pipes, filters [CS340] [CS422] [CS425] [CS452] [CS453]
[1 week] Editors, e.g., vi, emacs [CS340] [CS422] [CS425] [CS452] [CS453]
[1 week] Compilation, linking [CS340] [CS422] [CS425] [CS452] [CS453]
[1 week] Makefiles [CS340] [CS422] [CS425] [CS452] [CS453]
[2 weeks] Debuggers [CS340] [CS422] [CS425] [CS452] [CS453]
[1 week] Source-code control [CS340] [CS422] [CS425] [CS452] [CS453]
[1 week] Performance monitoring, e.g. gprof, pixie [CS422] [CS425]
[1 week] Shell programming
[1 week] AWK programming
[2 weeks] Perl programming
[1 week] Tcl/Tk programming

Note that the above schedule assumes only one lecture per week for this one-credit course.

Authored by Todd Proebsting.

Last revised on 30 April 1997 by John Hartman.