winter break fun

Here are some things you can do to get a jumpstart on the class.

Everyone

• Motivate yourself to use unix
  • Hole Hawg story (this is what converted me)
  • The unix philosophy
• Set up your computer for this course. Instructions here. WARNING! This may be difficult. If you are stuck, then get help from a friend (I can't help now), or wait until class starts.

Beginner

• Software Carpentry Lessons
  • Python
  • The unix shell
• Python introductory course
• Unix shell tutorial

Intermediate

• Git
  • Clone the first homework repo and try to understand it
  • The first homework will ask you to modify this utility to do other useful things
• Software engineering
• Regular expressions

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