Ideas to build community and expand our knowledge base and resources

CS-PeerLearning.md

Projects and proposals

• Workshops on foundational info not taught in standard classes
• Create a environment of peer learning in the CS Department through the CS Club and Discord channel for outreach
• BASH (Bourne Again SHell) (bash,zsh,fsh, etc)
• .bashrc, .profile, .zshrc, etc setup
• Tools and managers (zplug)

Topics and Learning Objectives in video lectures

• Virtual machines and containers

  • How to create and customize virtual machines
  • (VirtualBox, VMWareFusion, Vagrant)
  • Containers

• Shell and scripting

• Command-line environment

  • aliases and functions
  • shells and frameworks
  • terminal emulators and multiplexers
  • command line utilities
  • Git setup and operations from the command line

• Data wrangling

  • Regular expressions (regex)
  • grep
  • sed
  • awk
  • xargs

• Editors

  • How to utilize, customize, and navigate emacs and vi, both powerful text editors.

• Version control

  • The basics of source code management and its best practices.

• Dotfiles

• Learning to customize tools

• Machine specific customizations

Linux and Shell – Basic bash commands 1

• File navigation, creation, deletion, and modification

  • cd
  • ls
  • pwd
  • less
  • file
  • ln
  • cp
  • mv
  • rm
  • mkdir
  • type
  • which
  • help
  • man

• How to define a Shell, terminal, and filesystem

  • Common shortcut commands

• Linux file permissions

  • chmod
  • sudo
  • su
  • chown
  • chgrp
  • id
  • groups
  • whoami
  • adduser
  • useradd
  • addgroup

Linux & Shell – Basics 2

• How to use redirections and filters

  • echo
  • cat
  • head
  • tail
  • find
  • wc
  • sort
  • uniq
  • grep
  • tr
  • rev
  • cut
  • passwd (5) (i.e. man 5 passwd)

• How to use variables and expansions

  • printenv
  • set
  • unset
  • export
  • alias
  • unalias
  • . (shortcut for source command)
  • source
  • printf

• Shell arithmetic

• Different ways to use processes and signals

Linux & Shell – part 3

• How to create SSH keys
• How to use while, until and for loops
• How to use if, else, elif, and case statements
• How to use the cut command
• What are file and other comparison operators, and how to use them
• What is a PID - ps - pgrep - pkill - kill - exit - trap
• What is a process
• How to find a process PID
• How to kill a process
• What is a signal

System Engineering – Security

• How to create and use an SSH RSA key pair
• Different types of servers and their functions
• How to set up and customize firewalls
• SSL certificates

System Engineering – Webstack Debugging

• How to figure out what is going on and fix it manually
• How to read logs to deduce problems within a system
  • netstat
  • ping
  • ifconfig
  • telnet
  • nc
  • cut

Debugging, program inspection, terminal app

• GDB/LLDB – Supports many C-like languages

• PDB – Python debugger

• tmux

• Organize our own workgroups and training sessions to learn skills that are a part of computing ecosystem literacy not taught in traditional CS classes.

  • Use The Linux Command Line book from No Starch Press
  • Use the videos and notes from the MIT missing semester series.