Interfaces I

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Topics

• Command-line and text interfaces.
• Historical perspective.
• Teletypes, shells, Read-Evaluate-Print Loops.
• Basic *nix-style conventions for interaction.
• Basics of shell scripting.
• Processes and job control.
• Quick intro to SSH?, text editors, GnuPG?, Git?

Reading

• Command-line and text interfaces
• Using a CLI
• Editing Files
• Processes and job control
• Shell scripting
• Makefiles

Practical

• complete Unicode Unix for Poets, on your home *nix machine (Mac may have subtle problems; WSL or other Unix is fine)