• Send an introductory email to orientationcmu@gmail.com and cc it to the Academic Skill email. Use the subject "Intro Email"
• Get Virtual Box and Ubuntu Linux installed and setup
  
• Sign up with Piazza: piazza.com/cmu/fall2017/orientation
• Get your Academic Skills Assignments from Piazza

• Intro Email

  In 1 or 2 paragraphs, tell us a bit about your technical background: How would you describe your technical skill-level? Are you an expert programmer? Had a few classes? Rusty? New to it? ... What programming languages do you know? Do you have any specific technical goals for your time at CMU?

• Setup Virtual Box and Ubuntu
• Storage Access - click Advanced, then Add Exception
• How to install Ubuntu
  
• Start LINUX

• Read "Password Perceptions Don't Always Match Reality"
• Complete the associated Study Skills Assignment (on Piazza).

• Finish Practice Paths 1
  Email answers to the course email account with the subject "Practice Paths 1".

• More LINUX
• Discuss "Password Perceptions Don't Always Match Reality" by Daniel Tkacik

• Skim the Linux postings on Metacharacters (also called "file globbing"), Pipes and Redirection, Regular Expressions, and Regular Expression Examples.
• Complete the associated Study Skills Assignment (on Piazza).

• Work on Practice Paths 2

• More LINUX
• A little Binary and Hex
• Start Practice Cmds

• Read grep, sed, sort, and find.
• Complete the associated Study Skills Assignment (on Piazza) by answering any "what does this do" questions.

• Finish Practice Paths 2
  Email answers to the course email account with the subject "Practice Paths 2".

• Download and unpackage Practice2.tar (we will practice with this together in class)
• Regular Expressions
• More on Practice Cmds
• More Commands


• Install MatLab You will find it under Software. Install version 2016b. The instructions are posted at http://www.cmu.edu/computing/software/all/matlab/installation.html .

This is due next week, but please at least start on it over the weekend



• Handout Linux Quiz 1

• Practice Cmds
  
  Email answers to the course email account with the subject "Practice Cmds".

• Read the section on vi.
• Complete the associated Study Skills Assignment (on Piazza).

• Linux Quiz 1
• Update your profile (You should finish this by the end of Study Time)
• Practice vi

• Text Editing
• Update your Profile
• Start Shell Scripts

• Read Quotes and Shell Scripts
  Note: Be sure to read all the subpages.

• Finish setting up your Environment.
• Finish preparing for the Data Problem:
Make sure you have a directory to work on your Data Problem. Download the data file to this directory.

Download the cleanData script (where should it go?) from downloads and setup your environment to make sure you can use it.

Run the command:

 cleanData <file> > <cleanfile>.psv

• Start working on scripts 1-4 in Shell Script Ideas

• Data Problem - from Professor Patrick McSharry
  


• Quotes
• Continue Shell Scripts


• Algorithms
• Guess the Correlation
  

• Review the Data Problem and think of potential interesting questions to ask from the data. (Note: there is nothing to turn in, just read through the postings on our Data Problem, and think about it.)

• Complete scripts 1-4 in Shell Script Ideas
  Note: only Version 1 of dirinfo is due tonight.
• Finish MatLab Installation

• More Shell Scripts
• Advanced Excel

• Based on the in-class Algorithms exercise from yesterday ("Blowing Up a Ballon"), prepare the following documents (done individually):
  1. In an attached Word document called Algorithm1.doc, write up your algorithm from the in-class exercise. Remember to use the proper format for an algorithm.
  2. In an attached text file called story1 (using vim), write a short story, of 150-200 words in length, on the topic used for the in-class Algorithm exercise.
• Email your documents to the course email account with the subject "Algorithms". (Note: who do you email these files to?)

• Complete Version 2 of dirinfo.
• Work on the in-class Data Exercises. For the written questions, answer them directly in your submission email.

• Start Data Exercises.
• Download file3 and file3.txt (under downloads), so we can play a little.
  

• Introduction to MatLab Programming

• Get your Java book (no later than the end of Study Time).
• Follow the "Before you Begin" session from your Java textbook to download, install, and setup the JDK and the Eclipse IDE in both your Windows and Linux environment.
  
• This is in your hard-copy book, and in the link provided to the right.
• You should aim to install the Eclipse Java IDE by the end of Study time
  
• Work on the Data Problem and the Data Exercises.

• Work on the Data Problem and the Data Exercises.
• Handout Linux Quiz 2
• Start Java.
• This is the Java textbook:

  Java How to Program, 10/e (Early Objects) by Deitel and Deitel
  

• You will use the same text book for 04-330 Fundamentals of Programming and Problem Solving, if you take it.

Tasks: Due Sunday by 10pm

• Finish the Data Exercises. For the written questions, answer them directly in your submission email. Attach your script and any other files. Use the subject line "Data Problem Exercises".

• Linux Quiz 2

  Work on your own and give the printed copy to a TA before classes start on Monday morning.

• Read Ch 1-3 of your Java book.

• Complete Java Terms 1

  Email your answers to the course email account with the subject line "Java Terms 1".

• (Tentative) Complete Java Assignment 1 and email your code to the course email account with the subject "Java Assignment 1".