% Week 02 Notes for CST8207 - Winter 2012
% Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com
% Winter 2012 - January to April 2012

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Midterm Tests
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Your first midterm test will be around week 5-7.  What is best?

*   The Midterm Test dates will be posted on the [Course Home Page].
*   Tests are short answer and multiple choice.
*   For full mark credit, read the [Test Instructions] for important
    directions on how to enter your answers on the mark-sense forms.
*   Each Midterm covers material on the preceding assignments and
    Weekly Notes.
*   Basic calculators are permitted for this test and the final exam.
    (No phones or PDA devices.)

Lecture Notes for This Week
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From the Class Notes link on the Course Home Page
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* [Test Instructions](000_test_instructions.html) -
  Important directions on how to enter your answers on the mark-sense forms.
* This is [Your Brain on the Internet](005_this_is_your_brain.txt)
* [Frequently Asked Questions](007_freqently_asked_questions.html)
* [How to report Problems](008_how_to_report_problems.txt)
* [Installing VMware Tools](010_vmware_tools.html)
* [Why Learn the Unix Shells?](100_why_shell.txt)
* [Command Line vs. GUI: Power Users need more than GUI](110_command_line_vs_gui.txt)
* [The Unix/Linux Shell](120_shell_basics.html)
* [Searching for items in the Unix manual pages (RTFM)](130_man_page_RTFM.txt)
* [Options and Arguments on Unix Command Lines](140_arguments_and_options.txt)
* [Unix/Linux Pathnames (absolute, relative, dot, dot dot)](150_pathnames.txt)

### Assignments and Labs ####
* Start [Assignment #01] - Multi-tasking and Homework
* Finish [Lab #01] - Installing Fedora 12
* Start [Lab #02] - Using Standard Linux Commands I

From the Classroom Whiteboard/Chalkboard
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* Your in-class notes go here.
    - If you're not taking notes, why am I talking to you?  You won't
      remember anything I say if you don't write some of it down.
      You won't even know what the lecture topics were.
    - Everything has a due date, after which it may not be marked.
    - You get one chance to get it right.
      See [Right the First Time](week01notes.html#right-the-first-time)

* Midterm test dates?
    - chosen by in-class clicker responses - Friday February 10

* SOPA blackout:
    - <http://en.wikipedia.org/>
    - <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout>
    - <http://www.osnews.com/>

* Geeks and repetitive tasks:
    - <http://i.imgur.com/Q8kV8.png>
    - <http://blog.jonudell.net/2012/01/09/another-way-to-think-about-geeks-and-repetitive-tasks/#comment-203970>

* If Operating Systems Were Airlines
  <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=linux&defid=406702>

* A Rap happened on Wednesday.
    - see the CC [Music](03_Ghosts_I.mp3) and [License](000_Licensing.txt)
    - send me your Rap video from Wednesday and I'll post it here
    - you need to distribute it under a Creative Commons license
    - you can use Dropbox to transfer large files

### Topics: Operating Systems, Linux, Shells, and File Systems ###

* Operating Systems, e.g. Linux, BSD, OSX, Windows
    - Purpose of an Operating System: Manage the Hardware
    - Linux: an open-source operating system

* Shell Programs (e.g. the Bourne-Again Shell named "bash")
    - Purpose of a Shell: Find and Run Programs
    - [The Unix/Linux Shell](120_shell_basics.html)
    - [Options and Arguments on Unix Command Lines](140_arguments_and_options.txt)
    - shell tries to help you do your job by changing what you type
    - file patterns are expanded by the shell

* Getting Help - RTFM
    - [Searching for items in the Unix manual pages (RTFM)](130_man_page_RTFM.txt)
    - know how to quit and to search a manual page

* Hierarchical File Systems - current directory, dot, and dot dot
    - directories inside directories (folders inside folders)
    - parent and child directories
    - the current directory
    - absolute and relative pathnames
    - [Unix/Linux Pathnames (absolute, relative, dot, dot dot)](150_pathnames.txt)
    - remember the two hidden absolute pathnames

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