UNIX Programming

Experience/knowledge with a programming language, such as JavaScript, Visual Basic, C++, Java, or PL/SQL.

Course Description:

With extensive hands-on exercises, not only this course provides students with the knowledge of UNIX system features, structures, and components, but it also gives students the working experience in the UNIX environment. Students will design, write, debug, and run Shell programs/scripts using the commonly used UNIX utilities and Shell statements.  The UNIX file system internal and the Shell process life cycle are discussed in details.  Hands-on exercises will re-enforce the covered concepts and commands.  This course uses Linux as the operating environment.

The textbook used in this course is UNIX with Shell Programming (Seocnd Edition, 2001), published by UTI.  Students will receive a copy of GNU Linux (a PC version of UNIX).

Total eighteen (18) hours of lecture time.

Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the history, characteristics, features, structure and the general functions of the UNIX operating system
• Describe the components of the UNIX system
• Gain the working knowledge of the fundamental UNIX utilities
• Understand the functions of the UNIX file management system
• Work with UNIX files and directories
• Understand the life cycle of the Shell process
• Develop, read, and maintain UNIX Shell scripts

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