Learning the Shell, Fall 2025

Details

Course: COMP 141-002 / COMP 400D-002 Intro to Computing Tools and Techniques
Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Instructor: Daniel Moreira (dmoreira1@luc.edu)

Lectures: TUE, 4:15 to 5:30 PM, online
Office Hours: TUE evenings and FRI mornings, Doyle Center 310 or Zoom, by appointment
Sakai: https://sakai.luc.edu/x/Ja8Jox
Git: https://github.com/danielmoreira/luc-comp141

Overview

Despite the current era of rich graphical user interfaces (desktop, web, and mobile), the “command line” experience remains important, especially for software developers and computer-aided scientific researchers. Many development scenarios still require command line and fluency in Unix tools, including the modern embedded, cloud, cybersecurity, and supercomputing environments. With mobile computing and Internet of Things, Unix (notably via Linux) has risen to the level of a ubiquitous platform, owing to its lightweight and open-source nature. While this course does not aim at being a comprehensive programming class, students will master basic programming skills using shell scripting. They will also learn about problem-solving using Unix commands supported by shell scripts.

Please refer to Sakai for having access to the materials, assignments, quizzes, announcements, grading, and progress of the course. This page is static and will not be updated.

Team

This course is offered in multiple sessions with the following leading and contributing LUC instructor (Fall 2025):

• Corby Schmitz
• John O’Sullivan
• Allan Miller

References

• Shots, W. The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition. No Starch Press Book, 2019. Available at https://linuxcommand.org/.