| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| January 3 | Introduction to System Programming Chapter 2 - Overview of Operating Systems Chapter 1 - Quick start to Unix OS Chapter 0. |
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| January 10 | Files and File Structure Chapter 7 Editing Files Chapter 3, 4, and 5 |
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| January 17 | Basic File Processing Chapter 9 C Programming Tools Chapter 20 |
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| January 30 | Pointers, Structures, and Arrays File dependencies, make Section 20.5.4 |
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| February 7 | Debugging (gdb) (dbx) Section 20.7 Source Control System (sccs) Section 20.5.7 |
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| February 14 | Utilities grep, diff, sort, find, tar, cpio, dump, sed, awk Programmable text processing. |
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| February 21 | Mid-semester break. No classes. | |
| February 28 | awk examples Unix Shells Chapter 4, Chapter 15. Advance Bourne Shell Chapter 16 C Shell Chapter 17 |
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| March 6 | Advanced C Shell Programming Chapter 18 Networking and Internet Chapter 14 |
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| March 13 | System Programming, Process Management |
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| March 20 | Signals 18.5 Pipes Chapter 12 |
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| March 27 | System Administration | |
| April 3 | Windowing System Chapter 21 |
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| April 5 | Review |