CA 157 - INTRODUCTION TO LINUX

    Recent Professors
    Jonathan McCary, Kent Burgdorfer
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2027, Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Summer 2026
    Class Size
    25 students
    Difficulty
    5.6Moderateout of 10
    Credits
    3
    Spring 2027 Sections
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    Transfers To
    CSU
    Description
    The course will focus on the shell environment, system administration and security, programming, and the graphical user interface. Students will learn to write shell scripts using basic commands and regular expressions. They will then use those tools to write scripts first with basic shell commands, then with grep, sed, and awk, then with more advanced decision-making and flow control commands. Other scripting tools such as Perl and Python will also be explored. Students will write shell scripts programs to exercise their understanding of tools and concepts. This course will be taught using a combination of lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and hands-on labs.