Late assignments may be accepted with a signed written letter. The letter must include the period when you could not work and the reason for missing time. The number of missed days will be used to extend the deadline. Marks for missed labs or midterm with an accepted letter will be assigned to the final.
The following is the course textbook which is available for free at linuxcommand.org:
The Linux Command Line, A COMPLETE INTRODUCTION; William E, Shotts, Jr.; No Starch Press; ISBN-10: 1-59327-389-4; ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-389-7;
Each student must present a 10 minute presentation (plus 5 minues for questions). These presentations will occur in the last 15 minutes of class. The time slots available are indicated in the calendar below as slots A-K. You are free to present on any interesting (i.e. non-trivial) command as long as it is not already covered in the textbook. The following are possible choices:
Each presentation should describe a particular command line tool and give example workflows and a brief discussion of relevant concepts. The material for the presentation can come from a variety of sources, but it is crucial that the presentation consists of original material.
The presentation itself should be created in Markdown format and must be submitted to the Instructor along with compiled HTML or PDF files two days before the in-class presentation. I recommend pandoc as a tool for converting from your Markdown file to an HTML file or PDF presentation.
The following schedule is subject to change. Starting with lab 1 assignments will be due at the start of the corresponding lab period (e.g. assignment 1 is due at the beginning of lab 1).
The tools used in this course are available in all modern desktop operating systems, although further configuration is required for some:
There are some instances where the particular OS used will be important. In those cases, we will be using Ubuntu 14.04. You can install this on your own machine if you choose but it may be easier to run it within virtualization software such as VirtualBox. VirtualBox needs an image of the OS in order to run it. I use this one which has additional features for robotics (which we won't be using). But you could also look for another simply by googling "Ubuntu 14.04 desktop ova". Be warned that these ".ova" files are quite large.
If you do all of your work in the lab (EN-1049) then you don't need to worry about any of the above. Just run Ubuntu.
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