This Schedule of Reading Assignments is Tentative and Subject to Change. Dates which are no more than 5 days after the current date, however,
can be consider fixed and not subject to change.
The text is
Unix:
The Complete Reference by Kenneth Rosen, Douglas Host,
James Farber, and Richard Rosinski; Osborne/McGraw-Hill; July, 1999;
ISBN: 0-07-211892-X.
This book is as much is as much an economical reference as a text.
Its list price is $39.99, but it has been available on the web for
less than $29, including tax and shipping. Two web sites which
allow you to compare book prices are
www.bookarea.com and
www.mysimon.com
One of the considerations in choosing this book as a text was
that the reasonableness of its price would allow students to buy
at least one other book as an additional reference and still spend
less on books for this course than for most other courses.
Among many fine sources of information,
O'Reilly's UNIX books
are notable for their range, ubiquity, and covers featuring
engravings of animals.
UNIX in a
Nutshell (ISBN 1565924274) and
sed & awk
(ISBN 1565922255) are good examples of this publisher's imprint.
Wednesday, January 12: Assignment 0.
Buy the text and acquaint yourself with it,
including an initial reading of the chapters assigned for week 1.
Unless you are an ICS major who is already actively using your ICS UNIX
account,
get and login
to your ICS UNIX account
following the procedures given at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lab/procedures/activate.html.
Unless you have already done so, get and login to the OAC EA
(Educational Access) account provided to all UCI students.
See http://www.oac.uci.edu/computing/ea.html for more
information.
Thursday, January 13: Assignment 1.
Send to ics54@ics.uci.edu an e-mail with the subject "Background Info"
and the body of the message containing the following information:
Your name and "@uci.edu" address in the form
"FirstName LastName
<UCInetID@uci.edu>"
The ICS courses you have completed.
The other courses you are taking this quarter. (optional)
Your background and experience using various types
of UNIX (e.g., Solaris, Irix, Free BSD, Linux, etc.).
Your background and experience using other operating
systems.
Your background and experience using computers
beyond what you have already described.
Your objectives in taking this course.
What you have found to be the most effective ways for
you to learn. (optional)
With this assignment, as with all other work in this class,
please use complete sentences in all descriptions and explanations.
The ability to communicate effectively and professionally is
an important, indeed essential, skill.
Wednesday, January 26: Assignment 2.
Checkoff January 26-28 based upon appointments made in
Discussion Section, Tuesday, January 25.
Wednesday, February 9: Assignment 3.
An individual assignment due at the start of class.
Wednesday, February 23: Assignment 4.
An individual assignment due at the start of class.
Monday, March 6: Assignment 5.
An individual assignment due at the start of class.