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

• Introduction
• Course overview

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 Mon, May 11 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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Let's get acquainted with the command line :)

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

Basic

Due Fri, May 15 at 11:59 pm on EECS 201 Autograder - 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 Wed, May 13 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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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 Mon, May 18 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

Submission due Mon, May 18 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Mon, May 18 to Mon, Jun 01

• 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 Mon, May 18 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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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 Fri, May 22 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Redirection
• Pipelines
• File modes

Advanced

Submission due Fri, May 22 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Wed, May 20 to Wed, Jun 03

• Writing a minimal shell

Content and Videos

• 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 Wed, May 20 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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

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

Basic

Due Fri, May 29 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Pipelines
• Expansions
• Control flow
• Functions
• Scripting

Advanced

Submission due Fri, May 29 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Mon, Jun 01 to Mon, Jun 08

• 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 Mon, Jun 01 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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Today we'll be going into regular expressions.

• Regular expressions

Basic

Due Fri, Jun 05 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Regexes with grep
• Regexes with sed

Advanced

Submission due Fri, Jun 05 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Wed, Jun 03 to Wed, Jun 10

• 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 Wed, Jun 03 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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Today we'll be taking a deeper look at Git.

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

Basic

Due Mon, Jun 08 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

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

Advanced

Submission due Mon, Jun 08 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Mon, Jun 08 to Mon, Jun 15

• 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 Mon, Jun 08 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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

• Building programs
• Build systems
• Make

Basic

Due Fri, Jun 12 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

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

Advanced

Submission due Fri, Jun 12 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Wed, Jun 10 to Wed, Jun 17

• 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 Wed, Jun 10 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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

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

Basic

Due Mon, Jun 15 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Getting settled with Python

Advanced

Submission due Mon, Jun 15 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Mon, Jun 15 to Mon, Jun 22

• 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 Mon, Jun 15 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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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 Fri, Jun 19 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Linking against libraries
• Creating libraries

Advanced

Submission due Fri, Jun 19 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Mon, Jun 15 to Wed, Jun 24

• Runtime library linking

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, Jun 17 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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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 Mon, Jun 22 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

• Getting familiar with terminal editors

Advanced

Submission due Mon, Jun 22 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Wed, Jun 17 to Wed, Jun 24

• Extending editors

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 Mon, Jun 22 at 11:59 am on Canvas

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

• printf
• Logging
• GDB
• Valgrind

Basic

Due Wed, Jun 24 at 11:59 pm on EECS GitLab - pdf

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

Advanced

Submission due Wed, Jun 24 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf
Checkoffs in lab from Mon, Jun 22 to Thu, Jun 25

• Debugging a running process
• Your debugging process

Content and Videos

Class

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

Basic

Due Wed, Jun 24 at 11:59 pm on Gradescope - pdf

• How's it going?