| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| September 8 | Introduction to System Programming Chapter 2 - Overview of Operating Systems Chapter 1 - Quick start to Unix OS Chapter 1. |
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| September 14 | Files and File Structure Chapter 2,4, 8 Editing Files Chapter |
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| September 21 | Basic File Processing Chapter 4 File security Chapter 5 |
Assignment #1 |
| September 28 | Basic File Processing Chapter 6 Advance File Processing Chapter 7 |
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| October 5 | Redirection and Piping Chapter 9 Source Control System (sccs) Section 20.5.7 |
Assignment #2 |
| October 12 | October 12 Thanksgiving Day. No classes.Mid-semester break. No classes. | |
| October 19 | Utilities grep, diff, sort, find, tar, cpio, dump, sed, awk Programmable text processing. awk examples |
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| October 26 | Unix Shells Chapter 6, 13 Advance Bourne Shell Chapter 12, 13 C Shell Chapter 14 |
Midterm Test |
| November 2 | Advanced C Shell Programming Chapter 15 |
Assignment #3 |
| November 9 | Introduction to C and Software Development Chapter 17November 11 No classes in lieu of Remembrance Day. |
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| November 16 | Version Control Chapter 17 |
Assignment #4 |
| November 23 | System AdministrationChapter 23 | Quiz #4 |
| November 30 | IDEs |
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| December 7 | Review |