flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) (10/24/89)
Note (flame retardant): I realize that many people reading these
groups will not be interested in the following lectures. But I
think others will be, which is why I am posting this.
Nevertheless, some of these lectures are at a reasonably high level.
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THE CSSU PRESENTS...
TOPICS IN UNIX - An introduction to your programming environment.
Lectures by Alan J Rosenthal.
These lectures do not depend on each other; you can attend any
one without any other. Lectures begin promptly at ten minutes
past the hour. Everyone is welcome.
All lectures are on the University of Toronto St George campus.
Room codes below indicate the following buildings:
RS - Rosebrugh Building, 4 Taddle Creek Road
(just east of King's College Road)
GB - Galbraith Building, 35 St George Street
Tuesday 31 October, RS208, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM -
First hour: An overview of unix philosophy. What life was like
before unix, and some of the big unix design decisions that
changed all this. What unix is supposed to be like from the
user's point of view.
Second hour: An introduction to unix architecture. The file
system, processes, the kernel, shells.
Wednesday 1 November, GB202, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM - An introduction
to unix usage. Setting up your account, dotfiles,
subdirectories, commands and arguments, shells, redirection,
pipes. A little about the C-shell if we have time.
Following the lecture, pizza and refreshments will be served by
the CSSU.
Tuesday 7 November, RS208, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM - The Bourne shell
programming language. This lecture assumes familiarity with some
Algol-derived language (e.g. Pascal, C, Turing).
Thursday 9 November, GB120, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM -
First hour: An introduction to the C programming language. Basic
control structures; simple data types.
Second hour: Advanced C data types. Pointers, arrays,
structures, etc.
For more information mail to flaps@dgp or cssu@one.cdf. (You may
have to append ``.utoronto.ca'' to these addresses.)