Linux Basics: The Command Line Interface - 6 

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Learn how to use WebLinux

Course syllabus

Two universities teamed up to offer a new specialization in C Programming with Linux

The course team

Collaborative MOOC

Earn a Specialization from Dartmouth and IMT

Get the most out of this course

Pre-course survey

Access to WebLinux

Learn how to post code on the Coursera forum

Are you ready to start?

Operating systems genesis: definition, services (files, memory, processes), key dates

UNIX genesis: MAC projet @ MIT, MULTICS, Thompson & Ritchie

Linux genesis and history: GNU, Stallman, GPL, Linus Torvals, Linux

Command line interface, prompt, command options and files data, command cal as example

First commands: echo 'hello world', date, cal, history, whoami, hostname, uptime, clear, command not found, man, command options

Interactive commands: top, htop, nano, vim, how to get back to the prompt

Play with commands: hello, worm, firework, rain, hanoi

Self-assess your learning in the History of Linux and the command line

Filesystem

pwd, cd, ls, absolute path, relative path (1)

pwd, cd, ls, absolute path, relative path (2)

Touch, rm, names with spaces

cat less

mkdir, rm -r

Unblock yourself in the command line

mv: rename and move

cp, cp -r

Find locate

Self-assess your learning in The Linux file system

Compiler vs interpreter

Compile a C program automatically on Weblinux

Compile a C program using GCC

Memory representation, RAM, cells, word, byte, bit, memory address

Manage the memory with the command line: free, top, htop

Memory consumption of a program using htop, virtual memory

Reboot Weblinux if needed

Interactive programs in C using scanf, fflush

Use scanf and file redirection to simulate an input

Don?t use scanf, use fgets getline or readline

Memory representation, RAM, cells, word, byte, bit, memory address

Self-assess your learning in C program compilation with gcc

Let's continue coding

Congratulations

End of course survey