Course Schedule

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Enjoy the Labor Day weekend!

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Class

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

Syllabus week! Today we will look at what this course is and how it's organized, and strategies for success.

• Introduction
• Course overview

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Class

Something came up for me this day, so have an extra week to get settled in and set up.

Content and Videos

• 1 - What is a command line? [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - What is Unix? [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - Getting around the Unix command line [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Playing around with the Unix command line [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Getting an SSH key [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Fri, Sep 20 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

Let's get acquainted with the command line :)

• What is a command line?
• Intro to *nix

Basic

Due Wed, Oct 02 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf

• Getting access to Unix(-like) command line
• Getting access to the course server
• Some light reading

Content and Videos

• 1 - What is version control? [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - What is Git? [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - GITing around [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - GITing things back [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Git branches [ Play | Link ]
• 6 - Git remotes [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Fri, Sep 27 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

Today we'll be taking a bit of a detour and looking at the basics of version control and Git

• What is version control?
• Basic Git flow
• Git branches
• A taste of Git remotes

Basic

Due Wed, Oct 16 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Connecting to the course server
• Setting up an existing code base
• Making and merging topic/feature branches
• Setting up a remote
• Running the autograder

Advanced

Due Wed, Oct 16 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf

• Recovering data with Git

Content and Videos

• 1 - What is Unix 2, Electric Boogaloo (2:03) [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - Unix principles (4:39) [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - Unix processes (16:26) [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Unix files (12:11) [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Shell background (2:17) [ Play | Link ]
• 6 - Shell operation (8:28) [ Play | Link ]
• 7 - Variables (4:35) [ Play | Link ]
• 8 - Walking the PATH (3:41) [ Play | Link ]
• 9 - Executables and shell scripts (8:02) [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Fri, Oct 04 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

Today we'll be looking at Unix and its workings and how they tie into Bash and other shells.

• What is Unix?
• How does Unix work?
• Interacting with Unix via Shells

Basic

Due Wed, Oct 23 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Redirection
• Pipelines
• File modes

Advanced

Due Wed, Oct 23 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Writing a minimal shell

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Class

Enjoy the Fall Study Break!

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• 1 - Shell introduction (2:39) [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - Job control (13:41) [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - File redirection++ (11:02) [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Command grouping (3:47) [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Expansions (15:19) [ Play | Link ]
• 6 - Quoting (4:35) [ Play | Link ]
• 7 - Control flow (23:16) [ Play | Link ]
• 8 - Sourcing (3:40) [ Play | Link ]
• 9 - Shell configuration (5:31) [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Fri, Oct 18 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

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Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

Today we'll be at how to take advantage of Bash.

• Shell operation
• Expansion
• Control flow
• Scripts
• Configuration

Basic

Due Wed, Oct 30 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Pipelines
• Expansions
• Control flow
• Functions
• Scripting

Advanced

Due Wed, Oct 30 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf

• Shell prompt configuration

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• 1 - Regex introduction (4:33) [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - Character literals (4:05) [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - Special characters (9:15) [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Brackets (5:56) [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Quantifiers (7:27) [ Play | Link ]
• 6 - Anchors (4:53) [ Play | Link ]
• 7 - Backreferences (6:10) [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Fri, Oct 25 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

Today we'll be going into regular expressions.

• Regular expressions

Basic

Due Wed, Nov 06 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Regexes with grep
• Regexes with sed

Advanced

Due Wed, Nov 06 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Pig Latin conversion with sed

Content and Videos

• 1 - Fixing commits (12:49) [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - Rebase (12:45) [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - Caveats of rewriting history (5:34) [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Stash (4:07) [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Remotes and tracking (10:12) [ Play | Link ]
• 6 - Workflows (19:42) [ Play | Link ]
• 7 - Conflicts (7:47) [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Fri, Nov 01 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

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Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

Today we'll be reviewing and working through some examples and using Bash and then go into regular expressions.

• Rewriting history
• Stashing
• Remotes
• Workflows
• Merge conflicts

Basic

Due Wed, Nov 13 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Changing remotes
• Dealing with a merge conflict
• Cleaning up by rebasing

Advanced

Due Wed, Nov 13 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Git hooks

Content and Videos

• 1 - What are programs? (3:20) [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - What is a build system? (3:11) [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - What is Make? (1:29) [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Rules and targets (9:34) [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Variables (6:37) [ Play | Link ]
• 6 - Automatic variables (5:46) [ Play | Link ]
• 7 - Functions and expansions (1:26) [ Play | Link ]
• 8 - Pattern matching (6:24) [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Fri, Nov 08 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

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Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

Today we'll be looking at how code gets built and the tools that help them out

• Building programs
• Build systems
• Make

Basic

Due Wed, Nov 20 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Basic Makefile
• Makefile phonies
• Makefile dependencies
• Variables and reuse

Advanced

Due Wed, Nov 20 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• More Make
• CMake

Content and Videos

• 1 - Intro (0:46) [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - What is Python? (3:11) [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - Variables and data (3:34) [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Types (9:39) [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Expressions (3:26) [ Play | Link ]
• 6 - Comprehensions (2:58) [ Play | Link ]
• 7 - Simple statements (1:26) [ Play | Link ]
• 8 - Compound statements (1:51) [ Play | Link ]
• 9 - Functions (0:42) [ Play | Link ]
• 10 - Classes (1:35) [ Play | Link ]
• 11 - Modules (3:10) [ Play | Link ]
• 12 - Conclusion (0:26) [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Fri, Nov 15 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

Today we'll be taking a look at how to program a snake

• Higher level scripting
• What is Python?
• Python extras

Basic

Due Wed, Dec 04 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Getting settled with Python

Advanced

Due Wed, Dec 04 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf

• MATLAB alternative
• Your own path

Content and Videos

• 1 - Intro (1:12) [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - Types of libraries (4:41) [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - Using libraries (7:26) [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Creating libraries (15:17) [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Fri, Nov 22 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

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Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

We'll be looking into the idea of libraries, how to use them, and how to create them. This class will be in the context of C and C++, but the general idea can apply to other languages as well.

• What are libraries?
• Using existing libraries
• Creating your own

Basic

Due Wed, Dec 04 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Linking against libraries
• Creating libraries

Advanced

Due Wed, Dec 04 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Runtime library linking

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Enjoy the Thanksgiving break!

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Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Survey

We'll be taking a dip into testing software

• What is and why testing?
• Kinds of testing
• Unit testing
• Test-driven development
• Live TTD demo

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Class

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Class Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

Class Survey

In another semester, we'll have handed the floor over to our IAs to give some small classs

Basic

Due Wed, Dec 11 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf

• How's it going?

Advanced

Due Wed, Dec 11 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf

• Internships/jobs/summer plans

Content and Videos

• 1 -Intro (0:27) [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - Print debugging (9:30) [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - Logging (13:00) [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Interactive debuggers feat. GDB and LLDB (21:04) [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Valgrind Memcheck (7:09) [ Play | Link ]
• 6 - Conclusion (9:14) [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Wed, Dec 18 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

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Class Survey

We'll be looking at methods for debugging C/C++ programs

• printf
• Logging
• GDB
• Valgrind

Basic

Due Wed, Dec 11 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Using GDB to debug a C/C++ program
• Using Valgrind to check for memory errors

Advanced

Due Wed, Dec 11 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf

• Debugging a running process
• Your debugging process

Content and Videos

• 1 - Intro (1:25) [ Play | Link ]
• 2 - The editors around us (9:01) [ Play | Link ]
• 3 - Intro to Vim (15:07) [ Play | Link ]
• 4 - Vim counts, motions, and operators (3:00) [ Play | Link ]
• 5 - Vim macros (3:26) [ Play | Link ]
• 6 - Vim configuration (3:35) [ Play | Link ]

Quiz due at Wed, Dec 18 at 10:30 am on Canvas

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

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Class Survey

Today we'll be looking at text editor history and look at more "advanced" text editor features, featuring Vim

• Text editor history
• vim

Basic

Due Wed, Dec 11 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Getting familiar with terminal editors

Advanced

Due Wed, Dec 11 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf

• Extending editors