Linux Tools and Scripting

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A fast paced introduction to linux that brings the project-oriented student from little or no linux experience to be fully capable of using scripting languages as tools in a linux command-line environment. This includes systems administration and agile web services with server-side scripting and server-side management. This also involves data cleaning, scraping, wrangling, and processing user data with regular expressions. Current main languages include php, bash, awk, with some client-side javascript, and very brief looks at tcl/lua, powershell, and python. Tools include vim, make, grep/sed, and curl/wget. Recommended preparation: one year of computer programming and familiarity with raw HTML/CSS. Prereq: CSDS 132 or CSDS 134 .