This unit provides students with an introduction to UNIX tools for managing processes; searching, editing and modifying files and data streams; and command interpreters and shell scripts. In addition, students will learn about a typical system call interface and its use for systems programming in a language like C.
2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk
Students will be expected to spend a total of 12 hours per week on this unit as follows:
For on campus students, workload commitments are:
Off-campus students generally do not attend lecture and tutorial sessions, however, you should plan to spend equivalent time working through the relevant resources and participating in discussion groups each week.
CSE2391, CSE3391
One of FIT1008, FIT1015, CSE1303
Robert Merkel
Examination (3 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%
| Assessment Task | Value | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment 1 | 20% | Monday 23 April 2012 |
| Assignment 2 | 20% | Friday 25 May 2012 |
| Laboratory Exercises | 10% | At the end of each lab session |
| Examination 1 | 50% | To be advised |
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The exam format will be changed to reduce the requirement to remember as many details of the command-line arguments for utilities - both students and the examiner regarded this as unrealistic and unnecessary.
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Please check with your lecturer before purchasing any Required Resources. Prescribed texts are available for you to borrow in the library, and prescribed software is available in student labs.
You will need access to:
The software is available remotely using a (freely-downloadable) ssh utility to log into the ra-clay Monash Linux server. Linux distributions are also downloadable at no cost, but no installation support will be provided for these.
Mark G. Sobell. (2009). Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, A (2nd Edition). (2) Prentice Hall (ISBN: 978-0131367364).
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. (1988). The C Programming Language. (2) Prentice Hall (ISBN: 978-0131103627).
Michael Kerrisk. (2010). The Linux Programming Interface. (1) No Starch Press (ISBN: 978-159372-200-3).
Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant. (2000). Programming Perl. (3) O'Reilly Media (ISBN: 978-0-596-00027-1).
No field trips.
No additional costs.
Exam details, including permitted equipment, will be announced on the unit website during the semester.
| Week | Activities | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0 | |
| 1 | Unit Introduction, Editing with the Vim Editor | Laboratory Exercises are assessed at the end of each lab session |
| 2 | Introduction to C, Make | |
| 3 | C programming: Pointers & Data structures | |
| 4 | Unix C Programming | |
| 5 | Inter-process communication, the GLib utility library | Assignment 1 handed out |
| 6 | Introduction to shell programming | |
| 7 | Shell filters | |
| 8 | Shell programming | Assignment 1 due Monday 23 April 2012 |
| 9 | Regular expressions | |
| 10 | Perl 1: scalars & arrays | Assignment 2 handed out |
| 11 | Perl 2: Perl regexes | |
| 12 | Perl 3: Perl modules, Perl 6. | Assignment 2 due Friday 25 May 2012 |
| SWOT VAC | No formal assessment is undertaken SWOT VAC | |
| Examination period | LINK to Assessment Policy: http://policy.monash.edu.au/policy-bank/ academic/education/assessment/ assessment-in-coursework-policy.html |
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Faculty Policy - Unit Assessment Hurdles (http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/resources/staff/edgov/policies/assessment-examinations/unit-assessment-hurdles.html)
Participants must attend at least 8 of the 11 labs.
Correctness; efficiency; quality of solution; documentation
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