Throughout your education as a Computer Scientist at Carnegie Mellon, you will take courses on programming, theoretical ideas, logic, systems, etc. As you progress, you will be expected to pick up the so-called “tools of the trade.” This course is intended to help you learn what you need to know in a friendly, low-stress, high-support way. We will discuss UNIX, LaTeX, debugging and many other essential tools.
For more information, you should checkout the syllabus.
NOTE: We are still tweaking the schedule, and it is subject to change.
| Date | Reading | Lecture Topic |
|---|---|---|
| ASAP | Initial setup | - |
| 8/31 | Week 1 | Terminal usage |
| 9/7 | Week 2 | Vim |
| 9/14 | Week 3 | Vim |
| 9/21 | Week 4 | Bash |
| 9/28 | Week 5 | Bash |
| 10/5 | Week 6 | Bash |
| 10/12 | - | Midterm Exam |
| 10/19 | Week 7 | Bash |
| 10/26 | Week 8 | Git |
| 11/2 | Week 9 | Git |
| 11/9 | CMU Advice | (misc.) |
| 11/16 | Week 10 | Makefiles |
| 11/23 | - | Thanksgiving |
| 11/30 | Week 11 | Terminal Configuration |
| 12/7 | - | Final Exam |
Throughout the semester, we’ll be holding extra workshops and talks outside of class, dubbed “extratations”, to explore topics that we don’t want to test you on but that you might find interesting.
Time and Location: 2:00 pm Saturday and Sunday in GHC 4102
We’ll be posting the extratation schedule here.
| Date | Extratation Topic |
|---|---|
| 9/2 | Latex |
| 9/3 | Latex |
| 9/9 | Git basics, shell tricks |
| 9/10 | Git basics, shell tricks |
| 9/16 | Emacs Basics |
| 9/17 | Emacs Basics |
| 9/23 | Advanced Emacs |
| 9/24 | Advanced Emacs |
| 9/30 | Package Managers |
| 10/1 | Package Managers |
| 10/7 | Pandoc & Midterm Review |
| 10/8 | Pandoc & Midterm Review |
| 10/14 | Technical Interviewing |
| 10/15 | Technical Interviewing |
| 10/21 | Mid-semester Break |
| 10/28 | Vim Customization |
| 11/4 | WDW |
| 11/11 | Digital Currencies |
| 11/18 | React Native |
| 11/25 | Thanksgiving |
| 12/2 | Advanced Git |
This site is broken up into a number of Topics which are further broken up into Lessons. One topic in particular relates directly to the assignments in this class: Readings. The “Readings” topic is where you can find links to the the lessons that will be useful for solving that week’s lab.
In general, there are more lesson pages than there are labs. You will only be assessed on your knowledge of those that relate to solving the labs. The others are there as additional resources.
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