CS160A Summer Course Overview

An Introduction to command-line Linux designed for students who are interested in using hardware platforms that support Linux systems. Topics include:

• accessing Linux
• transferring files between Linux systems
• use of the editor vi
• the commandline interface and syntax
• standard input/output
• command line editing
  • navigating
  • names and types
  • paths: absolute nad relative
  • inodes and directories
• managing files and directories
  • creating
  • removing
  • copying
  • links: hard and symbolic
  • find
  • permissions
• text file utilities:
  • displaying
  • horizontal and vertical slicing
  • searching using regular expressions
  • sorting
• processes

In addition, in our summer course which will demonstrated using the Raspberry Pi and various peripherals, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating a simple client/server script using Python and Shell Scripting to offload images/video and other sorts of media to a local server.
• Organizing media files using external drives such USB, SDCard etc.
• Installing and running Raspbian-based Media server technologies.
• Basic chatbot and messaging tools.
• An Introduction to sed.

Homework Policy

Homeworks will be posted in the form of exercise and project-based assignments.