Introduction to the CS network
Fall 2007
About the Course
This course gives an introduction to the network and computer systems at Institute for Computer Science. The first lecture will be in the auditorium, and will give you a brief introduction to the systems. The following lectures will be exercises for useful tools.
There are no exams in the course, it counts as a free study activity. To get the course on your diploma you have to meet up to the first lecture.
Course homepage for: 2006 2005
First Lecture
First lecture will be in the main auditorium. The lecture will start 8.15 and will take between 1 and 2 hours. There is no preparation for the first lecture.
Exercises
The plan for the exercises are:
- 13/9 Latex Slides / exercises
- 19/9 Revision control Slides / exercises
- 10/10 Emacs (and AUCTeX) Slides / exercises
- 11/10 Unix Shell Slides / exercises
All slides and exercise material will be made available.
Exercise Material
Links to material needed in the exercises. Directory listing here
Links / Literature
First of all: google is your friend. Usually someone have had the same problem as you.
LaTeX
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e is a good place to start. It can be downloaded free of charge.
- The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e by Tobias Oetiker et al. PostScript.
- LaTeX Cheat Sheet.
The LaTeX Companion is the book about LaTeX. If you want to know how use the full potential of LaTeX, this is the book. It is not well suited for absolute beginners.
The book can be bought in the University book shop or Amazon (might be cheaper). Be sure to get the 2nd edition (2004)(has a compas on the cover, first edition (1994) has a dog on the cover).
- MiKTeX. LaTeX for MS Windows.
Revision Control
Version Control with Subversion. This book gives an introduction to version control in general, describes the concepts of revision control, and configuration and use of Subversion.
The book is freely available on the internet, but you can also buy a dead tree version. Should be available in the bookstore.
Unix/Linux
UNIX - An Introduction provides a resonably good guide for getting started with unix. Remember that Unix is big system, so its hard to put everything in one place - google is still your friend. This guide should start you up though.
- UNIX - An Introduction
- LinuxCommand article on Learning the shell
Emacs
Linux Journal has an article on getting started with Emacs. Windows users should be able to use it as well.
- Getting Started with Emacs
- Emacs reference card in PostScript
- AUCTeX Homepage