Topics
Terminal Usage
Initial Setup Using Files & Commands Jobs, Man Pages & Links AFS
Vim
Vim as Language Editing & Navigation Searching, Substituting, Text Objects, and Yanking Tabs, Jumps, & the Clipboard
Bash
Bash Scripting Globbing & Ranges Strings Regular Expressons Input & Output Oneliners Bash Programming
Git
Getting Started With Git Resetting your UNIX labs distributed through git Git Command Overview Using Git on GitHub 2-factor-authentication instructions for Collab part 2
LaTeX
Getting Started With LaTeX
Makefiles
Getting Started with Makefiles Using Makefiles to Compile Code
Terminal Configuration
Dotfiles Configuring Bash Configuring Vim
Extratations
Latex Resume Tmux and Advanced Vim CI/CD with Github Actions Web Dev Weekend GitHub URL Shortener Bitcoin Dotfiles Product Management Crash Course Summer opportunities VsCode Interview Questions Introduction to Product management(PM) Universal Modeling Language(UML) & Object Oriented Design(OOD) Resume Review
GPI Schedule Initial Setup Resetting Labs Topics Staff Syllabus
GPI Schedule Initial Setup Resetting Labs Topics Staff Syllabus
GPI

07-131 – Great Practical Ideas in CS – F21

Overview

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, debugging and many other essential tools.

For more information, you should checkout the syllabus.

Feedback

We are keeping a form open throughout the semester for you to submit feedback on all the lectures and anything non-lecture related / about the course in general as well. You are welcome to submit the form multiple times throughout the semester, but please don’t spam us. Form available here

Schedule

NOTE: We are still tweaking the schedule, and it is subject to change.

Date Slides Reading Lecture Topic
9/2 slides Week 1 Intro + Latex
ASAP - Initial setup -
9/9 slides Week 2 Terminal usage
9/16 slides Week 3 Vim - Basics
9/23 slides Week 4 Vim - Advanced
9/30 slides Week 5 Git - Basics
10/7 - Week 6 Exam 1
10/14 - Week 7 Midsemester Break
10/21 slides Week 8 Git - github
10/28 slides Week 9 Bash - Intro & Globs
11/4 slides Week 10 Bash - Regex & Grep
11/11 - Week 11 CMU Advice - Q&A
11/18 slides Week 12 Bash - Pipes
11/26 - Week 13 Thanksgiving
12/2 - Week 14 Exam 2

Extratations

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: See Piazza

We’ll be posting the extratation schedule here.

Week Date Extratation Topic
1 9/4 No extratation, Extended OH instead
2 9/11 Summer Opportunities
3 9/18 VSCode
4 9/25 Interview prep
5 10/2 Exam 1 review
6 10/9 Makefile
7 10/16 Intro to Product Management (PM)
8 10/23 Crash Course w/ ScottyLabs
9 10/30 UML & OOD
10 11/6 Resume review
11 11/13 WebDev Weekend w/ ScottyLabs
12 11/20 Exam 2 review
13 11/27 Thanksgiving
14 12/4 N/A

Office hours calendar

How to use this site

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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