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 (UNIX/Linux & MS Windows) & software
   1. Task and resource management
   2. Operating system commands
      1. Manual pages: man
      2. who, ps, w.
      3. Copying files: cp
      4. Listing a directory: ls
      5. Displaying the content of a file: cat.
      6. Printer commands: lpr, lpq
      7. Renaming files: mv.
      8. Deleting files and directories: rm.
      9. Subdirectories commands: cd, mkdir & rmdir
   3. Operating system concepts
      1. file names, file types, & file versions, wild-cards
      2. subdirectories
      3. Command procedures & scripts (batch files), .login, .cshrc, .profile
      4. Environment variables, and variables
      5. regular expressions, grep
   4. Text editing - full screen.
   5. Electronic Mail
   6. Internet
      1. ftp
      2. telnet
      3. http
   7. Compiling and Linking (Programming languages)
      1. Assembly
      2. FORTRAN
      3. PASCAL
      4. C & C++
      5. Java