Study Guide for Quiz 1

CS 265/571 Advanced Programming Tools and Techniques
Instructors: Jeremy Johnson and Kurt Schmidt;
Exam date: (In class on Tue. Jan. 25 for CS 571 and CS 265 sec. 501/701 - times for other sections will be posted)


Students are responsible for material in the lecture notes (lectures 1 - 2). The midterm will cover basic Unix commands, the Unix file system, the bash shell, regular expressions, filters, and Awk.
There will be four problems (problems may have multiple parts)

  1. Unix commands to traverse and manipulate files and directories.
  2. Unix filters and using pipes to combine them.
  3. Simple shell scripts
  4. Simple Awk programs

Exam Rules

  1. The exam will last 50 minutes
  2. Students may bring a copy of the lecture notes for the first two lectures and notes they may have on them. No other materials are permitted.

Practice Problems and Review Session


There will be a review session, where I will go over additional problems as requested, during Dr. Johnson's office hours (4-6:30) on Monday.