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20 August 2020

preps | server OS | command line



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Class Schedule

Basics | sessions 01-03
  1. 13 Aug intro and clients | lecture | labs
  2. 20 Aug servers and command line | lecture | labs
  3. 27 Aug networks and protocols | lecture | labs
Web Development | sessions 04-07

  1. 03 Sep structural layer | lecture | labs
  2. 10 Sep presentational layer | lecture | labs
  3. 17 Sep using a structure | lecture | labs
  4. 24 Sep behavioral layer | lecture | labs
Dealing with Markup | sessions 08-09
  1. 01 Oct control objects and display | lecture | labs
  2. 08 Oct tools that read markup | lecture | labs
Working with Data | sessions 10-13
  1. 15 Oct formulas, functions, vectors | lecture | labs
  2. 22 Oct data display | lecture | labs
  3. 29 Oct manipulate data sets | lecture | labs
  4. 05 Nov relational data bases | lecture | labs
Presentation | session 14
  1. 12 Nov designing and delivering a presentation | lecture | labs


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Our second session will be about servers and how to communicate with them and within them.
You might want to read these items to prepare yourself for session two.

Preparations for servers session

on pioneers

Start by watching another pioneer, Doug Englebart, introduce the world to interconnected computers as well as demonstrating the first mouse.

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on servers

glance over How Web Servers Work by Marshall Brain, How Stuff Works

You might ask yourself who Marshall Brain is.

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For those of you who use the Windows OS

Install PowerShell SSH on your Windows 10 laptop

Try this on your own, but we will repeat the process in a lab to be sure we all have the functionality.

  1. Right Click the Start Menu start button
  2. Select App and Features select apps and features
  3. Select Optional Features Select Optional Features
  4. Click Add Feature Select Optional Features
  5. Install OpenSSH Client Install OpenSSH Client
  6. Right click to run SSH Right click to run SSH
  7. And prepare to use it as a terminal application SSH in terminal/PowerShell

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Other items relevant to today's class

  1. Who invented the first computer?
  2. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain UNIX (Bell Labs)
  3. BLESS BELL LABS — Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
  4. 50 YEARS LATER, WE STILL DON'T GRASP THE MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS
  5. The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files

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20 August Lecture | preps | server OS | command line