1. Prof. Alfred J Bird, Ph.D., NBCT abird@cs.umb.edu http://it441-f11-campbell.wikispaces.umb.edu/ Office – Wheatly 2nd floor 096-03 Office Hours – MW 3:00PM to 4:00PM

2.  Quizzes 20%  Readings 20%  Projects/Notebooks 30%  Final Exam 30%

3.  A Good Lab Notebook  Beginning PERL – Apress – 3 rd Edition  Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration – Apress –  The Practice of System and Network Administration – Addison Wesley  A portable storage device (USB JumpDrive)

4.  Mastering Regular Expressions – O’Reilly  Learning Perl – O’Reilly  Programming Perl – O’Reilly  Systems Administration with Perl – O’Reilly  Perl Cookbook – O’Reilly

7.  Input / Output  Variables / Information Storage  Decision / Control Structures  Data Manipulations / Calculations

8.  Machine Language  Assembler / Macroassembler  Fortran  Cobol  C / C++  Python  Java  Perl  A multitude of others ……………

9.  Procedural  Algorithmic  Structured  Object Oriented  Et. al

12.  Must store entries as text without formatting  Programmer vs. text editors

14.  Read Chapter 1 “First Steps in Perl” pp 1-11 and complete exercise 1 on p12.  Write a short summary of the SAGE code of ethics from the text or the SAGE website and be prepared to discuss it at the next class.