Schedule

Lecture slides and lab/workshop sheets can be downloaded from the Resources page. The order or delivery date of lectures on this page may change during the semester.

Recordings of the lectures will be available through UWA’s LMS (Learning Management System).

The schedule below gives recommended readings for each topic: either chapters from the recommended texts, or extracts. Your understanding of the lecture and workshop material will be greatly enhanced if you work through these readings prior to attending.

References to “Shotts” are references to chapters in William E. Shotts, Jr, The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction (see the Resources page for where to get it).

Week	Lecture	Lab/workshop	Reading	Assessment
1 22 Feb	Introduction; the Linux shell and environment	No labs in week 1	The Art of Unix Programming, chap 1 (“Philosophy”) Command Line Crash Course (an appendix to Learn Python the Hard Way) Shotts, chaps 1–5
2 1 Mar	Version control; pipelines and redirection	Linux shell and environment	Shotts, chaps 6 (“Redirection”), 7 (“Seeing the World as the Shell Sees It”), and 10 (“Processes”) A Non-Programmer’s Introduction to Git. (For (a great deal) more detail, see chapters 1–2 of Eric Sink’s book/site Version Control by Example)
3 8 Mar	Editors, scripts, and control structures	Version control; pipelines and redirection	Shotts, chaps 12 (“A Gentle Introduction to vi”), 24 (“Writing shell scripts”) and 27 (“Branching with if”)	Quiz closes 5 pm Friday 12th
4 15 Mar	Regular expressions, text, control structures cont’d	Editors, scripts, and control structures	Shotts, chaps 19 (“Regular expressions”) to 21 (“Formatting output”), and 29 (“looping with do/until”)
5 22 Mar	Shell functions and script design	Regular expressions, text, control structures cont’d	Shotts, chaps 26 (“Top-Down Design”) and 32 (“Positional parameters”)
6 29 Mar	Analysing and securing data	No labs this week due to Good Friday holiday	Shotts, chap 34 (“Strings and Numbers”); other readings to be advised
5 Apr	no classes – study break
7 12 Apr	Writing in Markdown	Shell functions and script design	The Markdown Guide – Getting Started
8 19 April	Accessing remote systems	Analysing and securing data	Shotts, chap 16 (“Networking”)	Assignment 1 due 11:59pm Sun 25 April
9 26 April	Build automation	Writing in Markdown	Afraid of Makefiles? Don’t be!; other readings to be advised
10 3 May	Open source and the web (lecture by David Glance)	Build automation	To be advised
11 10 May	PowerShell (lecture by David Glance)	To be advised	To be advised
12 17 May	Reflection & revision	To be advised	The Art of Unix Programming, chap 5 (“The Importance of Being Textual”)	Assignment 2 due 5pm Friday 21 May