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Introductory Unix (Unix I)

• Lancaster University
• Ken Frazer's Unix I slides
• Stanley Tanner's Unix I slides
• Pima College
• Professor Mauney's course from Parkland College.
• Professor Griffin's course from Cabrillo College.
• Neat awk assignment (from Richard Seabrook)
• Ohio State
• Mr. Madden's Online Unix Course In work
• Selena Sol's Intro to Unix for Web Developers. A nice introduction designed to be delivered in 3 day.
• Professor Norman Matloff's Unix and Linux Tutorial Center has a number of outstanding tutorials, for example:
• Unix - the Bare Minimum
• The minimal vi intro
• Emacs
• Shell Variables
• Processes
• the Vim editor
• the Elvis editor
• Mutt
• A set of tutorials from the University of Washington chapter of the ACM.
• Unix tutorial from the University of Idaho
• BulletProof Unix a complete package.
        There is a tarball of all the files, too.

Advanced Unix (Unix II)

• Ken Frazer's Unix II slides

Unix System Administration

• Ken Frazer's Unix System Administration slides
• Central Queensland University
• Professor Griffin's Unix/Linux Installation and Configuration from Cabrillo College.
• Professor Griffin's Unix/Linux Unix/Linux System Administration from Cabrillo College.
• Pima College
• Jim Fuller's Linux Administration course from Treasure Valley CC
• Ohio State

Other Unix Classes

• Professor Jim Fuller's Intro Linux course from Treasure Valley CC
• Jim Fuller's Programming in Linux course from Treasure Valley CC
• Unix Systems Programming from Arkansas State University.
• Professor Griffin's Unix/Linux Network Admin. course from Cabrillo College
• Unix programming tools from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Using Unix but not Teaching Unix?

• Unix User's page
• Professor Nashel's short course used in conjunction with his Data Structures class, from the University of North Carolina

Neat Stuff...(Well at least interesting stuff)

• Unix Timeline
• a vi tutorial from Arizona State University
• The vi lover's homepage by Thomer Gil
• Dr. Kelly's Unix History talk
• The handout for Dr. Kelly's talk
• Floppy Based Linux - You can run Linux w/o installing it, just boot from the floppy. Nice for students, or for use in labs.
• North Lake College documents - Here are a set of documents that our students have found handy. For example, we now have the following documents and files:
  • A printf primer
    
  • An ed editor discussion
    
  • A discussion of Redirection
    
  • A handout for Regular Expressions
    
  • Two administration scripts, to add and remove student accounts
    and an awk script useful to format text documents
    
  The handouts are in 4 formats, .sdw (star office), .txt (Ascii text...formatting may vary), HTML, and even .doc for those of you still wedded to the Evil Empire. :-)