CENG484 – Unix Programming
Lecture 1: Course Outline and Introduction
Dr. Sedef Demirci
CENG484 Class Introduction
Dr. Sedef Demirci
Contact: sedefgunduz@gazi.edu.tr
Website: http://w3.gazi.edu.tr/~sedefgunduz/
Course Objectives
• This course provides an introduction to UNIX systems and UNIX
programming.
• It covers basic commands in UNIX systems, the fundamentals of
UNIX programming, writing shell scripts.
Course Outcomes
At the end of the course, you will be able to
• use basic commands in UNIX systems,
• grasp the fundamentals of UNIX programming,
• Gain the ability to write shell scripts.
Resources
No textbook is required, but the following will be useful:
• “UNIX in a Nutshell” by Arnold Robbins, O’Reilly, 2005.
• “A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux (3rd or 4th edition)”, Mark G. Sobell, 2010
or 2015.
• “UNIX Power Tools” by Jerry Peek, Tim O’Reilly, Mike Loukides, O’Reilly, 1997.
• “Kim Korkar UNIX’ten”, Can Uğur Ayfer, Pusula Yayıncılık, 1995.
Other Class Resources
○ My website: http://w3.gazi.edu.tr/~sedefgunduz/
Grading
• assignments = %30
• 1 midterm = %30
• 1 final = %40
Assignments
• Submissions will be made through the online system on the due
date.
• There will be mainly on coding and writing scripts.
Course Schedule (Tentative)
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Feb 26
Mar 5
Mar 12
Mar 19
Mar 26
Course outline and introduction
Introduction to UNIX, basic commands
Common UNIX commands
UNIX Shell
UNIX Shell
Course Schedule (Tentative)
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Apr 2
Apr 9
Apr 16
Apr 23
• Apr 30
UNIX Filesystem
UNIX Filesystem
File management and access control
Ulusal Egemenlik ve Çocuk Bayramı
Search in UNIX, pattern matching
Course Schedule (Tentative)
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May 7
May 14
May 21
May 28
Jun 4
Editors, makefiles
Ramazan Bayramı
Process management
Shell programming
Shell programming
Today
• What is UNIX?
• Brief history of UNIX
• Properties of UNIX systems
What is UNIX?
• An operating system
• The Unix operating system originated at AT&T Bell Labs in the early
1970s.
• Why did people need UNIX?
○ Allowing multiple users to use a computer  Multi-user
○ allowing one user to do more than one job at the same time  Multi-tasking
Before UNIX
• In the 1960s, computers did batch processing.
• Programs could wait for hours, or days.
• Time-sharing system became a necessity.
• Multiple users at the same time  MULTICS
The birth of UNIX
1969: Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others in Bell Labs developed a
hierarchical file system, a command line interpreter, and some small programs
using assembly language.
1970: The project was named UNICS (UNiplexed Information and Computing
Service)
1972: Unix was rewritten in C.
The system grew throughout the 1970s.
The development of UNIX
1983: GNU project was started.
1980s: There were many different implementations. This led to Unix Wars
between Berkeley’s BSD and AT&T System V.
1991: Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux kernel.
1993: Common Open Software Environment
1990s: More BSD versions appeared.
The development of UNIX
2000s and beyond: There are numerous Unix-like systems. They all behave like a
UNIX system, but may or may not have trademark connection with early UNIX
code.
Linux is a common Unix-like OS.
Next Lecture
• Installing Ubuntu on Windows
○ https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Ubuntu-Linux
• UNIX filesystem
• UNIX filetypes
• Introduction to UNIX programming
• Basic comments