CIS 122, Introduction to Linux

CIS 122 is a Cuesta College class on Linux. The catalog page says:

"CIS 122 - Introduction To Linux Presents the concepts and tools necessary for the installation, configuration, and management of the Linux operating system. Students gain hands-on experience with Linux by performing extensive exercises on a laboratory network."

The instructor for CIS-122-0, Spring 2009 is Greg Porter. The official Cuesta College web page for the course is only available to students enrolled in the class.

I assume that students have never used Linux before. There are no prerequisites. Here's the syllabus for Spring 2009.

Most work is done in class. We won't have a lot of homework. I intend this to be a fun class.

The suggested text is Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide, Fifth Edition by Wale Soyinka, ISBN: 978-0-07-154588-4.

Accompanying labs to the text (by the same author) are at labmanual.org.

CIS 122 Spring 2009 Schedule UPDATED.

We're going to focus on using command line tools. Think about when you learned arithmetic. You first memorized addition facts. Later, when you knew how to add, you were allowed to use a calculator.

Knowing how to do most common tasks at the command line is crucial. Most servers are administered with command line tools. The graphical user interface (GUI) usually just issues command line commands behind the scenes anyway. When a server is "sick", often one of the first things to die is the GUI. If you can't fix things at the command line, you're in trouble.

If you have questions about CIS 122, email me at gregory_porter3@cuesta.edu.

_{Here is a rant about course web pages at Cuesta. I also teach Computer System Administration at Cal Poly every now and then. My personal pages.}

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© 2009 Gregory L. Porter.

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