Academic and Research Computing (ARC) is currently planning to offer a number of their short courses during the early part of the Fall 2001 semester. All of the following courses, which are given free-of-charge, will be held from 2:00pm to 4:00pm in JEC 3207.
This course, which is taught on the Rensselaer Computing System, provides an introduction to the UNIX operating system, but most of the material also applies to Linux. The course also introduces common UNIX commands, some of which have to do with managing and printing files.
This course introduces the vi text editor, a file editor available on all UNIX systems. On RCS workstations, vi is a full-screen editor that starts up quickly and has adequate functionality for many text editing tasks, such as composing source code and mail messages. vi uses no menus; you use keystrokes to enter commands.
This course introduces the emacs text editor, a standard file editor on RCS and many other UNIX systems. On the RCS workstations, emacs provides a graphical interface with menus. This editor is slower to start up, but has more functionality than vi, including special features to simplify writing source code in several programming languages.
This short course provides users with an introduction to using shell scripts, which are programs written using UNIX commands and shell programming constructs and which can be used to automate repetitive command sequences and to perform actions on multiple files.
This course provides an introduction to LaTeX, a document preparation system based on the TeX language, which is especially good at formatting mathematical and scientific text, and long, complex documents.
If you would like to register for any of these courses, select the Computing short courses link from the ARC homepage. (You may also obtain complete course descriptions from this page by clicking on the appropriate course link. You should also check to make sure that you have the necessary course prerequisites.)
Enrollment is limited to 30 students, so be sure to sign up early.
If a course needs to be cancelled or rescheduled, you will receive notification via e-mail.
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