CS 81.21:  Introduction to Linux

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Santa Rosa Junior College, California
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Page last updated 22 January, 2024

Getting Started


Spring 2024

· Course Information

· Assignment Schedule

· Zoom: Getting Started

· Portable Linux

· Unix Resources

 

  · Assignment Schedule

Welcome to Introduction to Linux! I'm your instructor, Eric Skagerberg, and I'll hold online Zoom sessions:

  • Monday 1/15, 10am-1pm, then
  • Every Friday 10am-1pm, starting 1/19

Please see "Linux Weekly Online Session" in the Modules page of the SRJC Canvas course site.

Attendance at these Zoom meetings is optional, but strongly recommended. 

If your schedule doesn't permit you to attend live, please view the session recording afterwards, which you'll find in the SRJC Canvas Modules by the next day, under the week's chapter module.

Our Linux Essentials course material is free online for students of this course. You won't need to buy a book. Although we have some recommended books in the SRJC bookstore, they're for reference only, and you won't require them.

You'll work with two course web sites:

  • Our main SRJC Canvas site, which contains:
    • All the primary information for this SRJC course
    • Discussion assignments
    • Review quizzes: mid-term and final
  • Our Cisco Networking Academy course material site, Linux Essentials by Network Development Group (NDG), which contains:
    • NDG's reading chapters
    • Lab assignments
    • Chapter exams
    • Mid-term and final exams

Here's how to get started:

  1. By the start of the semester, your instructor will provide separate Cisco Networking Academy student account access to the Linux Essentials course material, so you can log in there and begin working.
    1. If you already have a Cisco Networking Academy account from a previous course, please use that user name and password to log in.
    2. If you do not have a previous Cisco Networking Academy account, look for a course invitation email by the start of the course. Follow the directions to establish your user name and password. If you do not find an invitiation email, even in your Junk or Spam folder, please contact your intstructor immediately.
  2. Read the Course Information.
  3. Read the Assignments & Exams Schedule.
  4. Read Zoom: Getting Started to prepare yourself and your computer for the online recorded lectures.
  5. In the SRJC Canvas site, open the Modules section for the assignments and lecture recordings.
  6. Optional: Make your own Linux system: see the Portable Linux page.

 

 

   

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