End of Semester Notices for CS 141: Fall 2007 semester

Congratulations on completing this semester!

Practical Unix: Book signing

I am the author of the CS 141 text book: Practical UNIX. If you have purchased this book, I would be glad to sign it for you. You would have something to show that you took a class from the book's author and I would have one less book being sold second hand.

When will the Final Exams be graded?

Your Final Exam will be graded by hand, which should be done about 1 week after the in-class final exam. The first line of the notices in your class web site will tell you if Final grades have been posted yet or not.

How to find out your course grade

After I manually grade all the Final Exams, I will post the following on the class web site:

your Final Exam score showing your score for each question
all Final Exam questions, your answers and the correct answers
your course grade and rank

The college does not mail out grades. The college does have automated ways to check your grades, which you can review in the class schedule/catalog.

When will your class logins expire?

Your web login/password will allow you to access the class web site for at least j months after the end of the semester, which should give you plenty of time to check your grade for this class. Note that sometimes the college takes down its network for maintenance between semesters.

Your telnet login will expire about 2 weeks after the end of the semester and all your files will be deleted.

Request for feed-back

I hope you have found this class to be both useful and enjoyable. I understand that some of you did not have the time to put into the class that you had hoped. I also understand that everyone learns in different ways. I would be curious to hear some feedback from you:

What aspects of this class were enjoyable and/or worked well for you (and why)?
What aspects were not enjoyable and/or did not work for you (and why)?
What changes in the class or class work would have been better for you?

My email address is:

and I would enjoy hearing from you. Please don't worry about hurting my feelings as some of the best improvements in the class have resulted from complaints that students have shared with me. Your comments will not affect your grade.

Future Classes taught by Steve Mor Moritsugu
see http://unix01.sac.edu/futclasses.htm
Spring 2008: I am scheduled to teach these classes:

CS 141: UNIX/Linux Operating System Mondays 7 PM to 10 PM First class is Monday, Feb 11, 2008 Required Text book: Practical UNIX by Steve Moritsugu (the instructor of this class) published by Que, 1999/2000 ISBN-10: 078972250X ISBN-13: 978-0789722508 CS 241: UNIX/Linux System Administration Thursdays 7 PM to 10 PM First class is Thursday, Feb 14, 2008 Required Text book: UNIX System Administration Handbook, 3rd edition by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, and Trent R. Hein 2001, Prentice Hall PTR ISBN-10: 0130206016 ISBN-13: 978-0130206015 CS 243: UNIX/Linux System Programming Wednesdays 7 PM to 10 PM First class is Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008 Required Text book: Beginning Linux Programming 4th Edition by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones ISBN-10: 0470147628 ISBN-13: 978-0470147627