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29 AUG 2018

Value Added | daily

Class Schedule

Basics | sessions 01-05

22 AUG | intro
27 AUG | clients

29 AUG | servers | command line | create protected directory | next session

05 Sep | networks
10 Sep | basics lab

Web Development | sessions 06-11

12 Sep | structural layer
17 Sep | presentational layer
19 Sep | working with layers
24 Sep | behavior layer
26 Sep | images & design
01 Oct | website lab

Document Markup | sessions 12-14

03 Oct | object layers
08 Oct | tools that read markup
10 Oct | document markup lab

Spreadsheets | sessions 15-19

15 Oct | spreadsheets
17 Oct | formulas & functions
22 Oct | data display
 18 Oct | Fall Break 
24 Oct | database tools
29 Oct | spreadsheets lab

Relational Database | sessions 20-26

31 Oct | relational databases
05 Nov | tables
07 Nov | relationships
12 Nov | input & output
14 Nov | SQL
19 Nov | complex queries
26 Nov | databases lab
 21 Nov | Thanksgiving 

Presentation | sessions 27-30

28 Nov | presentation design
03 Dec | presentation delivery
05 Dec | presentation lab
12 Dec | 0800-1100 | final in class presentation





Servers may use many different operating systems,
but the ones you will most often encounter will be using either Unix or Linux.

Operating Systems

What is an operating system?

There are more than a few.

What others are out there? (note: this page is dated, but it is a good historical comparison)

Evolution of Operating Systems (also somewhat dated, but also useful for the historical background)

How Operating Systems Work - to quote How Stuff Works,

At the simplest level, an operating system does two things:  from How Stuff Works, a model of the layers of software incorporated in the operating system

  1. It manages the hardware and software resources of the computer system. These resources include such things as the processor, memory, disk space, etc.
  2. It provides a stable, consistent way for applications to deal with the hardware without having to know all the details of the hardware.

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Operating Systems

Operating systems can be either clients or servers

clients and/or servers:

Windows
Mac
Linux

usually seen as a server OS:

UNIX - Note where we had to go to find this page

So, let's look at either UNIX or Linux

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