2.3 Class content

1. Logging on/off
2. Passwords, security, file protection
3. Computer Hardware
   1. Processors: Single & Multiple, and Vector processing.
   2. Terminals and modems
   3. Disk and tape systems
   4. Networks
   5. Memory systems: caching, paging and segmentation
   6. Direct Memory Access (DMA) and Interrupts
4. Operating systems (Both VAX/VMS and UNIX) & software
   1. Task and resource management
   2. Operating system commands
      1. HELP & man commands
      2. SHOW & who, ps, w, commands
      3. COPY & cp commands
      4. DIRECTORY & ls commands
      5. TYPE & cat commands
      6. PRINT & lpr, lpq commands
      7. RENAME & mv commands
      8. DELETE & rm commands
      9. SET DEFAULT & cd commands
      10. CREATE & mkdir commands
   3. Operating system concepts
      1. file names, file types, & file versions, wild-cards
      2. subdirectories
      3. Command procedures & scripts (batch files), LOGIN.COM, .login, .cshrc, .profile
      4. Logical names, environment variables, and variables
      5. regular expressions, grep
   4. Text editing - full screen and line
   5. Electronic Mail(local and network)
   6. Internet
      1. FTP
      2. Telnet
      3. Netscape & Internet Explorer
   7. Compiling and Linking (Programming languages)
      1. FORTRAN
      2. PASCAL
      3. COBOL
      4. C & C++