CS 2500 UNIX BOOK Study Guide for Quizzes
COMPUTER SCIENCE 2500 -- PROGRAMMING II

Chapter One -- Introduction to Unix

Study the following:
  1. Exercises 2-4,
  2. these terms from exercise 1: main memory, secondary memory, flops, MIPS, shell, file, file system, directory, byte, GUI, terminal emulation, ISP & DSL;
Chapter Two -- Your Unix Account

Study the following:
  1. Exercises 5, 7-9,
  2. these terms from exercise 1: system administrator, login name, home directory, login shell, BSD, System V, control key, hardcopy, terminfo code, termcap code;
Chapter Three -- Getting Started

Study the following:
  1. Exercises 4-6,
  2. these terms from exercise 1: cursor, default, shell prompt;
Chapter Five -- Tutorial: Getting Started (CDE)

Study the following:
  1. Exercise 2
  2. these terms from exercise 1: keyboard focus, drag, active window;
Chapter Six -- The UNIX File System

Study the following:
  1. Exercises 1-5
  2. these terms from exercise 1: keyboard focus, drag, active window;
Chapter Seven -- Tutorial: Working with Files

Study the following:
  1. Exercises 5
  2. all the commands in the command summary (7.13)
Chapter Eight -- Tutorial: Working with Directories

Study the following:
  1. all the commands in the command summary (8.12)
Chapter Ten -- UNIX Shells

Study the following:
  1. terms: shell, program, process, option, argument, standard input, standard output, redirection, pipe, filter, wildcard, quote, background process, foreground process, process id number, PID, job number, job control.
  2. Exercise 2 (Do NOT try this command: rm *
    It will delete all the files in your current directory!)
  3. Exercises 3-6