MICROCOMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS
CGS 1560
Fall 20031
Monday
TEACHER: Eris Reddoch
OFFICE: 3212
PHONE: 484-2279
EMAIL: erisred@telocity.com or ereddoch@pjc.edu
| Date | Class Activities | Reading Assignments |
| 08/26 | Course Organization and Overview. Review of Hardware and Software. CLI vs. GUI interfaces. | Learning UNIX: Chp. 1, XP Command Line, Chp. 1 |
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| 09/09 | MS DOS compatibility and Generations. Starting and running DOS from Windows. DIR, CLI Parameters, and Wildcards. Creating DOS disks: Formatting and Copying. DOS internal and external commands/files. Disk Partitions. | XP Command Line, Chp. 2 & Chp. 3 |
| 09/16 | Disk and File management with DOS: trees, directories, paths, filenames and the Prompt. Copying, Combining and Renaming files. Displaying files using Type. | XP Command Line, Chp. 4 & Chp. 5 |
| 09/23 | Deleting Files. Deltree. Backups and Restores. Diskcopy. File Attributes File DOS editors and scripting languages. Organizing and Managing the Hard Disk. | XP Command Line, Chp. 6, Chp. 7, & Chp. 8 |
| 09/30 | Pipes and Redirection. Batch file programming. BASIC as a batch utility. | XP Command Line, Chp. 9, Chp. 10, & Chp. 11 |
| 10/07 | Test 1. UNIX and Linux Operating System. Overview of Features. Explanation of and installing MKS tools. Understanding and using UNIX style command lines. Logging in. Simple commands. Tree, directory, and file management. | Learning UNIX: Chp. 2 & Chp. 3 |
| 10/14 | UNIX tools: grep, diff, tar, find, printing and sorting. UNIX/Linux Shells. | Learning UNIX: Chp. 4 & Chp. 5 |
| 10/21 | System editors: vi and emacs. | Learning UNIX: Chp. 6 |
| 10/28 | Kornshell and scripting with shell scripts. | Learning UNIX: Chp. 7 |
| 11/04 | Understanding multitasking. Starting and managing multiple processes. 70% mark of course! | Learning UNIX: Chp 8 and Chp. 9 |
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| 11/18 |
Test 2. Scheduling commands. Monitoring a multi-user environment. |
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| 11/25 | Networking basics. Introduction to TCP/IP and DNS services. Understanding the Internet. Accessing the network with telnet, ftp and r-commands. | XP Command Line, Chp. 12 |
| 12/02 | GUI interfaces: MS Windows, Presentation Manager, X-Windows and Xfree86. | XP Command Line, Chp. 13 |
| 12/09 | MS Windows file management. | |
| 12/16 | FINAL EXAM. |
GRADE SCALEA 100 – 95 B+ 94 – 92 B 91 – 86 C+ 85 – 83 C 82 – 77 D+ 76 – 74 D 73 – 65 F 64 – 0 |
GRADE
CALCULATION 2 TESTS…………….50% 1 FINAL EXAM…….25% ASSIGNMENTS…….25%
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After two absences a student may be withdrawn from class. Please, let your instructor know if you are going to be absent. “Hands on” activities done in class are almost impossible to make up on your own, so try your best to attend each class.
WITHDRAWAL/INCOMPLETE
POLICY:
The college policy is that a student, or instructor, may withdraw a student up through the 70% point of a course. After the 70% point, neither the instructor nor the student may withdraw a student, and the student must remain in the course, and receive the grade they earn. Incompletes are rarely given and only if over 70% of the course work has been completed and the instructor and student agree that the remainder can be completed by a stated time that is no more than one year from the end of the course.