ECES 338 Spring 2002

Monday Recitation

Monday, 4:30-5:20

Recitation Information

• When: Monday - 4:30-5:20
• Where: Olin 313

Contact Information

• Name: Rick Wash
• Email: rlw6@po.cwru.edu
• Phone: 216-754-2034
• Other:
  • AOL IM: ricklwash
  • IRC: rwash on irc.cwru.edu
• Office Hours: (All Office Hours held in Olin 403 lab)
  • Monday, 11:30-12:20
  • Tuesday, 10:00-11:00
  • Wednesday, 11:30-12:20

Class Links

Main ECES 338 Web Page

http://art.cwru.edu/338

Steve Huwig's Recitation Page

http://www.eecs.cwru.edu/courses/eecs338/spring2002/SHuwig

Stuart Morgan's Recitation Page

http://www.eecs.cwru.edu/courses/eecs338/spring2002/SMorgan/

ECES 338 Material Coverage

http://art.cwru.edu/338/coverage.html

Student Web Sites

Web Sites

Announcements

01-18-2001

Here are some good links to information from this week's lecture. Steve Huwig has written a good tutorial for using UNIX and is available at http://www.eecs.cwru.edu/courses/eecs338/spring2002/SHuwig/unix-tutorial.html . Stuart Morgan has also written a tutorial and that is available at http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~sbm5/338/R1.html . This one also includes links to tutorials from previous years. Don't forget to set up your personal web pages. A list of working UNIX boxes in the Unix lab is available at http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~sbm5/338/hosts.html thanks to Stuart Morgan.

01-14-2001

No recitation this week. Please attend one of the other recitation sections to get familiar with UNIX. I recommend signing up for a UNIX account in the Unix lab (Olin 403) if you do not have one already. Goto http://www.eecs.cwru.edu/jcc/accounts.shtml#apply to learn how to apply.

• General reference
• Stanford CS Education Library. A comprehensive resource for aspiring computer scientists. Topics include interactive pointer and data structure models, basic C programming techniques, and tutorials for building projects on Unix machines. Don't skip this one.
• The Jargon File. Definitive resource for the peculiar dialect of English employed by many in the computer field. It even includes a reference to CWRU.
• UNIX
• Introduction to Unix - An online tutorial book from The Ohio State University. Also available in PDF format for those who like to kill trees.
• Beginner help from UGU - The Unix Gurus provide some introductory aid.
• UNIX Reference Desk - Tons of content from Geek-Girl.
• UNIXhelp for users - a big guide, from the University of Edinburgh.
• Programming
• cprogramming.com - Some Programming resources for C and C++.
• C Programming - A fairly involved 'book', from England.
• comp.lang.c FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions on the comp.lang.c Newsgroup.
• GNU GCC - the "official" page for GCC.
• HTML:
• HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners
• Getting Started @ home.cwru.edu - lots of pointers to interesting resources.
• Free Graphics:
• Syruss
• Free Web Graphics - from beeing seen.
• Freely-available UNIX for your PC:
• Solaris
• AnswerBook Documentation
• Linux
• CWRU SIGUNIX - a Special Interest Group that operates on campus. Part of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• RedHat - a very "easy-to-use" Linux distribution.
• Slackware - a "Professional" Linux distribution. For those who know what they're doing.
• Debian - A Linux distribution for those who think information wants to be free.
• Linux Newbie Guide - A nice place for beginners.
• BSD
  • FreeBSD - Optimized for the x86 platform.
  • OpenBSD - Optimized for security.
  • NetBSD - Optimized for portability.
• Freely-available UNIX for your Mac:
• Darwin - Apple's complete free Unix operating system for modern Macintoshes. Serves as the core of the commercial Mac OS X.
• Linux PPC - port of the "monolithic" Linux kernel to Apple PPC hardware. Faster than MkLinux, but requires PCI. Functions on all modern Macs.
• MkLinux - Linux running atop the Mach microkernel. This port is no longer supported by Apple, and runs on older NuBus-based Power Macintosh hardware.
• MacBSD - NetBSD for Motorola 680x0-based Macintoshes.
• Linux/m68k - Linux for Motorola 680x0-based Macintoshes.
• Software
• Tera Term SSH - a Freeware Telnet/SSH client for 95/98/NT.

Steps:
1. Download Tera Term Pro 2.3 first.
2. Next, Download TTSSH, the SSH extensions for Tera Term.
• Microimages MI/X - A free X-Server for PCs and Macintoshes.
• Misc
• Slashdot - News for Nerds.
• GNU - GNU is Not Unix. They have created a lot of the software used in this course.
• Freshmeat - A catalog of Free Software.