Class Material

Class 13 [January 31, 2011]

• Homework
  

Class 12 [January 27, 2011]

• Libtool
  
• Software Packaging
  

Class 11 [January 20, 2012]

• Autotools
  

• GNU Automake - Official Automake Documentation
• GNU Autoconf - Official Autoconf Documentation
• Autobook - Free online book on automake and autoconf
• Autotools Slides - Excellent (and very long) slides on autotools

Class 10 [January 13, 2012]

• Debugging
  

• GDB - Official documentation
• Python for GDB - Part of the documentation on the python API
• Nibbles microblog - Nice blog (in french) with good examples of python code for gdb

Class 9 [December 15, 2011]

• GCC
  
• Makefiles
  

• Program Library HOWTO - discusses how to create and use program libraries on Linux
• GNU Make Documentation - everything about make and makefiles

Class 8 [December 9, 2011]

• Development tools (intro)
  
• Version control with Subversion
  

• Version Control with Subversion (online book) - Everything you need to know about subversion

Class 7 [December 2, 2011]

• Integrating Python and C/C++
  

Class 6 [November 25, 2011]

• Python Language (Part C)
  

• Python standard library - The modules you need, organized by topics
  
• Norman Matloff's Python Material - Good tutorial on python topics

Class 5 [November 19, 2011]

• Python Language (Part B)
  

• Norvig's Spellchecker in Python - Good example of list comprehension
  

Class 4 [October 28, 2011]

• Linux toolset (last part)
  
• Python Language (Part A)
  

• Python v2.7.2 documentation - Please, take some time to browse around
  

Class 3 [October 21, 2011]

• Linux toolset (part B)
  

• Commandlinefu - New cool commandline gems everyday (to check out regularly)
  
• Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial - by Bruce Barnett
  
• sed, a stream editor - Official GNU documentation
  
• The GNU Awk User's Guide - GNU documentation
  
• Awk - A Tutorial and Introduction - by Bruce Barnett
  

Class 2 [October 14, 2011]

• Linux filesystem
  
• Linux toolset (part A)
  

• Linux Filesystem - Files and directories placement under the Linux operating system
  
• Set Operation - Nice survey on how to do set operations on the command line
  
• Formatting Text - Lot of recipes to do various text formatting tasks
  
• Unix Power Tools Online copy of the book
  
• Regular Expression Generator

Class 1 [October 7, 2011]

• Course Introduction
  
• UNIX History
  
• UNIX Philosophy
  
• The Shell

• Documentary on the history of Linux
• Classic Documentary (27 minutes) on the early Timesharing age at MIT
• The history of UNIX (from Bell Labs)
• The Art of Unix Programming - Eric Raymond's book about the history and culture of Unix programming (chapters 1 and 2 for history and philosophy)
  
• In the beginning was the command line - 1999 essay from Neal Stephenson. It's not technical, but it is worth reading (beside the fact that came out before MacOs X..). It is freely available in txt and html format on many sites.
  
• Bash Reference Manual - Official Bash documentation (Edition 4.0, February 2009)