Overview of Software Guides

We expect students who successfully complete the computing programs to have a basic knowledge in a number of tools. The following list is not universal, however it should be a good starting point.

• A Terminal Emulator (PUTTY)
• A Text Editor
• Basic Unix/Linux command line operation
  • Command Line History
  • Changing passwords (passwd)
  • Paths
    • Absolute
    • Relative
    • Tilda expansion
    • Basic Wildcards
    • pwd
  • File Operations
    • ls
    • rm
    • mv
    • cp
  • Directory operations
    • mkdir
    • cd
  • Man Pages (man)
  • I/O Redirection
  • Pipes
  • Diff
  • Pagers
• A Compiler (g++, gcc)
• File Transfer (pstp, filezilla, WinSCP)
• A build system (make)
• Working with the Tape Archive Utility (TAR)
• Files in Windows and Linux
• A version control system (git)