OPS145 Weekly Schedule

Important Quick Links

Course Outline	Course Policies for OPS145	Student VPN	Lab Log Book

Week 1

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Course introduction	Week 1 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 1: Using Your Matrix Server Account, Unix / Linux File Management
Course Resources, Evaluation, and Policies	Week 1 Lecture 2 Notes: Web	Tutorial 1: Worth 2% (Due Week 2: Friday @ 11:59pm)
Unix/Linux Background	Tutorial: Connect to Seneca's Student VPN
Open source philosophy	Tutorial: VIDEO: Connect to Seneca's Student VPN
Linux GUI and the terminal	Tutorial: Using a Linux Desktop
The Matrix Server	Windows SSH clients: SSH/SFTP | PuTTY | Bitvise SSH Client | MovaXterm
Accessing your Matrix Account
Using your Matrix Account
Command History

Week 2

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Unix file system	Week 2 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 2: Unix / Linux File Management
File types and file naming	Week 2 Lecture 2 Notes: Web
Basic file system commands: (pwd, cd, tree, ls, mkdir, rmdir, mv, cp, rm, man)	Reference Sheet: Nano Reference Sheet (PDF)	Tutorial 2: Worth 2% (Due Week 3: Friday @ 11:59pm)
Text editing	Reference Sheet: Vi Reference Sheet (PDF)
Common file utilities: (cat, more, less, touch, file, find)	Instructional Video: Linux File System, Basic Navigation: (ls, cd, pwd, tree),Absolute and Relative Paths
Filesystem links	Instructional Video: Basic File Actions (touch, ls -l, cp, cp -r, mv, mkdir, mkdir -p, rm, rmdir, rm -r), Relative-to-home Paths
Hard and symbolic links	Instructional Video: Reading/Writing to Files: (cat, more, less, man, date, diff, diff -y, find, wc)
	Instructional Video: Introduction to Vi

Week 3

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Absolute and relative pathnames	Week 3 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 3: Advanced File Management and Quoting Special Characters
File name expansion	Week 3 Lecture 2 Notes: Web	Tutorial 2 Due Friday @ 11:59pm
Shell basics	Instructional Video: Filename Expansion	Tutorial 3: Worth 2% (Due Week 4: Friday @ 11:59pm)
Command execution in detail	Instructional Video: Relative, Absolute, and Relative-to-Home Filepaths
Quoting Special Characters	Instructional Video: Quoting Special Characters

Week 4

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Data Representation: Binary and octal number systems	Week 4 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 4: Data Representation, Numbering Conversion, and File Permissions
Number conversions	Week 4 Lecture 2 Notes: Web	Tutorial 3 Due Friday @ 11:59pm
Unix file permissions	Instructional Video: Permissions, chmod, umask	Tutorial 4: Worth 2% (Due Week 5: Friday @ 11:59pm)
Introduction to Shell Scripting:
- Shell Variables
- echo and read commands

Week 5

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
stdin, stdout, stderr	Week 5 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 5: Redirection
Simple filter commands: (head, tail, cut, sort, tr, wc, grep utility)	Week 5 Lecture 2 Notes: Web	Tutorial 4 Due Friday @ 11:59pm
Redirection and piping	Instructional Video: Reading/Writing to Files (stdin, stdout, stderr, >, >>, 2>)	Tutorial 5: Worth 2% (Due Week 6: Friday @ 11:59pm)
/dev/null file

Week 6

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
scp and sftp utilities	Week 6 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 6: File Transfer and Sending Email
Sending email from command line	Instructional Video: SSH, SCP and Other Network Tools	Tutorial 5 Due Friday @ 11:59pm
		Tutorial 6: Worth 2% (Due Week 8: Friday @ 11:59pm)
		Review Tutorials (Due Week 13: Friday @ 11:59pm)

Week 7

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Course Review		Midterm Test (20%)

Study Week

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
No scheduled classes

Week 8

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Process management	Week 8 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 7: Process Management, Aliases and Shell Scripting
Aliases	Week 8 Lecture 2 Notes: Web	Tutorial 6 Due Friday @ 11:59pm
Shell Scripting:		Tutorial 7: Worth 2% (Due Week 9: Friday @ 11:59pm)
- User Variables	Instructional Video: Processes and Jobs
- Positional Parameters	Instructional Video: Aliases
- Command Substitution	Instructional Video: Links
- Math Operations

Week 9

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Regular expressions basics:	Week 9 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 8: Regular Expressions
- Literal matching	Week 9 Lecture 2 Notes: Web	Tutorial 7 Due Friday @ 11:59pm
- Character classes		Tutorial 8: Worth 2% (Due Week 10: Friday @ 11:59pm)
- . wildcard
- * repetition symbol	Instructional Video: Grep
- Anchoring	Instructional Video: Regex
	Instructional Video: Using df/du

Week 10

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Text Manipulation:	Week 10 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 9: Sed and Awk Utilities
- Using the sed Utility	Week 10 Lecture 2 Notes: Web	Tutorial 8 Due Friday @ 11:59pm
- Using the awk Utility	Instructional Video: Sed	Tutorial 9: Worth 2% (Due Week 11: Friday @ 11:59pm)
	Instructional Video: Awk

Week 11

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Advanced Shell Scripting:	Week 11 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Tutorial 10: Advanced Shell Scripting
	Tutorial 9 Due Friday @ 11:59pm
	Instructional Video: Bash Shell Scripting I	Tutorial 10: Worth 2% (Due Week 12: Friday @ 11:59pm)
- Positional Parameters
- Command Substitution / Math Operations
- test statements
- if / elif-else statements
- for loop statements
- if - elif - else statement
- for loop revisited
- while loop statement
- Error-Checking with Loops
- exit and break Statements
- export Command
- Start-up Files
- Further Study

Week 12

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
System Administration:	Week 12 Lecture 1 Notes: Web	Practical Assessment
- Virtualization	Instructional Video: Bash Shell Scripting II	Tutorial 10 Due Friday @ 11:59pm
- Virtual Machines		Practical Assessment: Worth 10% (Due Week 13: Friday @ 11:59pm)
- Root aka Super User
- Administrative Access (sudo)
- Adding users with adduser
- Verifying and Testing Network Connectivity: (ping, ip a, ip route)
- Installing Packages and Updating the System (apt)

Week 13

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Review	Review Questions: Sample Review Questions	Review Tutorials and Practical Assessment due Friday @ 11:59pm

Week 14

Learning Objectives and Tasks	References	Evaluation
Evaluation Week:		Final Test (20%)