teaching machines

CS 330 Lecture 1 – Hi and Shell

January 22, 2014 by Chris Johnson. Filed under cs330, lectures, spring 2014.

Agenda

• meta
• define this
• course outline
• shell

Define This

TODO

• Watch and play along with the video above on using Bitbucket for homework.
• Read the syllabus.
• Read Fred Brooks’ The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/Toolsmith-CACM.pdf).
• Change your shell as you wish.
• Bring a 1/4 of paper to Friday’s lecture with two questions and two observations based on your reading and watching.

Who Are You?

• Name?
• Where is home?
• Favorite or least favorite childhood activity?
• What programming languages have you done stuff with?

Setting your shell

Probably your shell is set to bash on dplsubmit and the other CS servers. bash is prolific, making web searches fruitful when you need help. My personal favorite shell is zsh. Sadly, I cannot change my shell permanently on our university machines. Instead, I hijack my bash startup files and run zsh instead. To get zsh up and running, I added these lines to my $HOME/.bash_profile:

[ -f /bin/zsh ] && exec /bin/zsh -l
[ -f /usr/bin/zsh ] && exec /usr/bin/zsh -l

Code

n/a

Haiku