
What you'll learn from this course
Students will understand the history of Unix and why it is still relevant today and how it would be useful to them
Students will understand the architecture of the Unix system
Students will get a few options by which they can try out the commands and exercises in this course
Students will understand the Unix command prompt and also various basic rules regarding the Unix system
Students will understand more about the Unix file system
Students will dip their feet into the world of Unix commands and understand basic commands
Students will understand how the options work with commands and we'll see a few examples of this
Students will learn about file permissions and how to change them
Students will learn about wildcards and file and directory related commands
Students will learn about a few miscellaneous commands
Students will learn about Inodes and how files are stored in the Unix file system
Students will learn about disk related commands
Students will learn about a few more disk and file related commands
Students will understand the basic concepts of I/O Redirection and Piping
Students will explore a few commands that uses I/O Redirection and Piping
Students will learn about cron jobs and processes
Students will learn about the vi editor
Students will create their first shell program
Students will understand what a variable is and how it can be used in their programs
Students will learn about special types of variables in this lesson
Students will learn about the If-Else construct
Students will understand the slightly more complex Nested If-Else construct
Students will learn about substitutions or special characters
Students will learn about logical operators in this lesson
Students will understand the concepts of loops
Students will learn about while loops
Students will learn about a program that combines If-Else and Logical Operators and Loops in this lesson
Students will learn about arrays and how it can be used in their programs
Students will learn how to read from a file in this lesson
Students will learn to write to a file in this lesson
Students will learn a program that combines reading and writing from files (along with some other operators that we learnt so far)
Students will learn about Unix signals and how to use them in their programs
Students will learn about functions and how it can be used to simplify programming
Students will learn how to execute multiple scripts within a program
Students will learn the basic program of how to generate a fibonacci series
Students will learn a program that checks if a given string is a palindrome or not
Students will learn how to reverse a given number
Students will learn a simple program that calculates simple interest and a farewell message to students
Students will learn about further resources and reading materials
This course will take you through the basics of Unix and the basics of Shell programming in 8 simple chapters. Each chapter is further divided into small lessons that work around simple concepts.
If you already know programming, this course will be a breeze. If you don't know programming, worry not, the course is structured in a way that even the beginner can pick up things.
This course will set you up for more advanced learning not just in Unix and Shell programming, but other languages like C, C++, Java that have their roots in Unix
Sample of reviews from students:
Danny Schell - "Excellent introduction to Unix command line and scripting"
Terri Doney - "I work for a big tech company. I use unix every day but I wanted more in depth knowledge and this course has taught me a lot."
Chinmayi Karmalkar - "It is very helpful for a beginner. Simple to understand with clear concept teaching. covers all concepts that we can later read in depth."
Ian Christie - "Very happy with the course - gives me a nice foundation to work with!"
Ravi - "voice & explanation was very clear."
Manager-Projects Chandrachur Mukherjee - "Overall a good course. Few points: ..."
Rahul Parashar - "...nebver the less a very informative vcourse !"
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