Academic Computing Services has scheduled the following short courses for later this month.
This course provides an introduction to the UNIX operating system as it is used on RCS. It introduces several common UNIX commands, some of which have to do with managing and printing files. You will also learn about output redirection, pipes, and filename wildcards. Finally, the course will explain the directory structure and path names, including some commands for manipulating directories and for controlling directory permissions. Brief exercises are interspersed between topics for hands-on practice. This course provides a basis for other short courses, including emacs and vi.
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 must use keystrokes to enter commands.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with RCS and UNIX
This course introduces the emacs text editor, a standard file editor on RCS and many other UNIX systems. On 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, including C and TeX/LaTeX.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with RCS and UNIX
These courses, which are free-of-charge, are limited to 30 people, so be sure to sign up early. (Also please note that classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.)
If you would like to register for any of these short courses, please contact the VCC Help Desk by either stopping by in person, calling ext. 7777, or by directing e-mail to acs-courses@rpi.edu. If you do send e-mail, be sure to specify which course(s) youÕd like to attend, and include your phone number.
Note that you can always find the latest schedule of course offerings and descriptions on-line through RPInfo by clicking on the Academic Computing Services link under the Computing section of the RPInfo homepage, then on the Computing short courses link on the ACS homepage.
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