Course Schedule

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap. · Google Drive

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Syllabus week! Today we will look at what this course is and how it's organized and then jump right into talking about one of my favorite things: command lines.

• Introduction
• Course overview
• Intro to *nix
• What is a command line?
• Why a command line?
• Live command line demo

Basic

Due Wed, Jan 26 at 11:59 pm: pdf

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

Advanced

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap. · Google Drive

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

• Recap of Lec 1
• What is version control?
• Basic Git flow
• Git branches
• A taste of Git remotes

Basic

Due Fri, Feb 04 at 11:59 pm: 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, Feb 02 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Recovering data with Git

Lecture

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap. · Google Drive

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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, Feb 11 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Redirection
• Pipelines
• Variables

Advanced

Due Sat, Feb 12 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Writing a minimal shell

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: Shells · Shell configuration · Shells (Google Drive) · Shell Configuration (Google Drive)

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

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

Basic

Due Wed, Feb 23 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Pipelines
• Expansions
• Control flow
• Functions
• Scripting

Advanced

Due Wed, Feb 23 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Shell prompt configuration

Lecture

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap. · Google Drive

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Today we'll be going into regular expressions.

• Regular expressions

Basic

Due Wed, Mar 09 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Regexes with grep
• Regexes with sed

Advanced

Due Wed, Mar 09 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Pig Latin conversion with sed

Lecture

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap. · Google Drive

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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 Fri, Mar 18 at 11:59 pm: pdf

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

Advanced

Due Fri, Mar 18 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Git hooks

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: Google Drive

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Today we'll be discussing a medley of topics

• How do computers understand us?
• Fields and jobs in EECS

Basic

Due Fri, Apr 15 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Internship hunt

Advanced

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: Google Drive

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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 Wed, Mar 30 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Getting familiar with terminal editors

Advanced

Due Wed, Mar 30 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Extending editors

Lecture

Enjoy your (spring?) break!

Basic

Advanced

Lecture

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

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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 Wed, Apr 06 at 11:59 pm: pdf

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

Advanced

Due Wed, Apr 06 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• More Make
• CMake

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

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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 Fri, Apr 08 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Getting settled with Python

Advanced

Due Fri, Apr 08 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• MATLAB alternative
• Your own path

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

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

• printf
• Logging
• GDB
• Valgrind

Basic

Due Wed, Apr 13 at 11:59 pm: pdf

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

Advanced

Due Wed, Apr 13 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Debugging a running process
• Your debugging process
• Pretty printing

Lecture

Slides: remark(down) · pdf

Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

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We'll be looking into the idea of libraries, how to use them, and how to create them. This lecture 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, Apr 20 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Linking against libraries
• Creating libraries

Advanced

Due Wed, Apr 20 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Runtime library linking

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: CoE Lec. Cap.

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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

Basic

Advanced

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: Part 1 · Part 2

Lecture Survey

We'll hand the floor over to our IAs to give some small lectures

• Staff lectures

Basic

Due Wed, Apr 27 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• How's it going?

Advanced

Due Wed, Apr 27 at 11:59 pm: pdf

• Downloading course resources

Lecture

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Lecture Recordings: GNU/Linux · Steal his look

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This is a supplemental lecture for people interested in running a bone-fide GNU/Linux system. I did a live presentation in class which...ran into some snags. I did do a pre-recorded version last semester which is more structured and doesn't run into nearly as many snags, whose recordings are here.

• Virtual machines
• GNU/Linux installation experiences
• "Steal his look"

Basic

Advanced