Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The Unix Programming Environment

Topics

• Familiarization with basic Linux commands and text editing
• The command line environment
•    Commands: ls, ls -l, cd, cp, rm, mv, mkdir, rmdir
•    FTP, command line for Linux and Windows Command line
•    WS_FTP for Windows
•    PuTTY  -  You can get the PuTTy program at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
•    telnet from anywhere
•    pico  Linux text editor (you may use vi, emacs  or any other Linux text if you prefer)
• The KDE graphic environment
•    Kate
• Compilation of your first  C++ program using g++  

Readings

None.  Deitel and Deitel does not have any compiler specific material. 

A good summary of the three editors available is at the University of Illinois at Chicago website: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/quickedit.html    You can also find many tutorials for the editors by Googling  "pico tutorial", "vi tutorial" or "emacs tutorial".

     Sean Mauney's Csc 128 First Week.  Pay special attention to the sections on Accessing Unix Remotely, the First Unix Login, Basic Commands and the Unix File System.