Instructor Information

Class Schedule

Course Requirements:

Course Website:

• http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~myers/cop3353

Course Materials:

• Online course notes
• There is no required textbook for the course
• Some recommended reference textbooks:
  • Unix Power Tools. Shelly Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, and Mike Loukide. O'Reilly, 3rd edition or later.
  • Just Enough Unix, Paul K. Anderson, 3rd or 4th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003.
  • Learning the Unix Operating System, Grace Todino, John Strang, Jerry Peek, 4th Ed., O'Reilly Publishing, 1997 (ISBN 1-56592-390-1).
  • Unix for Dummies, John Levine & Margaret Young, 5th Ed., IDG Books Worldwide, 2004 (ISBN 0-7645-4147-1).
• You must have a Computer Science system account (cs.fsu.edu) for this course. We will discuss how to get an account at the first class meeting

Course Objectives:

• Understand the History of UNIX
• Identify and use the different shells
• Find help on different UNIX commands and utilities
• Use the different file and process commands
• Use core UNIX text editors
• Redirect standard input and output
• Use various useful UNIX utilities, like grep, diff, tar, and others
• Set up their own UNIX environment
• Create simple shell scripts

Grading Policy:

Letter Grade Scale:

Tests:

Test Dates:

Link to Spring 2023 Final Exam Schedule

Excused Absence Policy

• FSU's Excused Absence Policy Statement: Excused absences include documented illness, deaths in the family and other documented crises, call to active military duty or jury duty, religious holy days, and official University activities. These absences will be accommodated in a way that does not arbitrarily penalize students who have a valid excuse. Consideration will also be given to students whose dependent children experience serious illness.
• It is the student's responsibility to notify me as soon as possible regarding any excused absences that affect graded work.
• A student will be allowed to make up a missed test if he or she has a notice of illness from the Student Heath Center or family physician. Any other excuses that are not medical or emergency related will be at the discretion of the instructor, and must be approved in advance. If you miss a test for any reason (without advance approval), you must notify me of the issue within 48 hours of the missed exam. Missed tests must be made up within 2 weeks of the test date, unless there is an extended long-term excused absence (e.g. hospital stay, etc)

Quizzes

Assignments

• Assignment specifications will be posted on the web page
• Turn in all assignments on time! Late assignments will be accepted one day after the due date, with the deduction of a letter grade (10%). Assignments more than a day late will not be accepted.
• Assignments need to be submitted through the appropriate submission portal. Instructions will be provided before the first assignment is due. E-mailed files will NOT be counted as valid submissions.
• Any concerns or issues regarding the accuracy of grades should be addressed first to the grader of the assignment in question, and also must be brought up within 7 days of the grade being posted

Academic Honor Policy:

ALL WORK IN THIS COURSE IS INTENDED TO BE DONE INDIVIDUALLY

In addition to this information, please be aware of the following:

• It is NOT APPROPRIATE to utilize websites such as: CHEGG.com, COURSEHERO.com, etc. DO NOT post our assignments to these websites to solicit answers, and DO NOT use/view/utilize the 'solutions' found on these websites. Doing so is in direct violation of the FSU honor policy.
• It is NOT APPROPRIATE to work on assignments with other students or to give or receive solutions to or from anyone before an assignment is due and handed in (by all parties).
• It is NOT APPROPRIATE to share homework solutions with your classmates. When you turn in an assignment with your name on it, you are representing that work as your own. If your submission matches that of another student, this is considered a violation of the Academic Honor Code.
• It is NOT APPROPRIATE to copy/paste, or use solutions written by other people from any web sources, forums, etc. as your own solutions.
• Plagiarism detection tools, such as MOSS, will be used in the grading process.
• It IS APPROPRIATE to utilize examples found in the course textbook or in the course notes and examples, as long as the source is cited. This is appropriate, as some hand-in assignments may have structural elements that are based on examples we've done in class, or contain other elements that are provided to you in the assignment specification.
• It IS APPROPRIATE to discuss solutions and techniques on assignments with other students AFTER the assignment has been graded and handed back.
• It IS APPROPRIATE to study general topics, ideas, and solve non-assigned-for-homework questions for practice with other classmates.
• If it is found that a student has violated the academic honor policy the student is not permitted to drop or withdraw from the course and must complete the course with the sanctions assessed via the policy. This is a UNIVERSITY policy.
• A first violation of the honor code will result, at minimum (but not limited to), a penalty of a 0 grade on the assignment or test involved, along with a reduced course letter grade for that term (-10 points off of the final course grade).
• If the violation is that of soliciting solutions on external web sites (Chegg, Course Hero, etc) -- which is also a violation of copyright -- the penalty will be an automatic F in the course, regardless of whether it is a first violation or not
• Any second violation of the honor code will result in an automatic F in the course, and possible proceedings before the FSU Honor Code Committee.

Americans With Disabilities Act

Students with disabilities needing academic accommodation should:
(1) register with and provide documentation to the Office of Accessibility Services; and
(2) bring a letter to the instructor indicating the need for accommodation and what type. This should be done during the first week of class.

This syllabus and other class materials are available in alternative format upon request.

For more information about services available to FSU students with disabilities, contact the:

Office of Accessibility Services
874 Traditions Way
108 Student Services Building
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4167
(850) 644-9566 (voice)
(850) 644-8504 (TDD)
sdrc@admin.fsu.edu
https://dsst.fsu.edu/oas

Students approved to take exams at the OAS office are expected to take exams at the regularly scheduled time.  Any exception to this will only be granted with a valid documented reason and must be approved by the instructor a week before the exam.

Syllabus Changes

Except for changes that substantially affect implementation of the evaluation (grading) statement, this syllabus is a guide for the course and is subject to change with advance notice.