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Class 1, Feb 4, 2004 Philosophy html tex dvi pdf ps |
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These notes are from the first lecture from a course on Open Source Programming. The lecture is about the philosophy and ideas underlying Open Source programming. A broad range of non-programming topics are introduced and illustrated with ``war stories''. |
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Class 2, Feb 11, 2004 Linux html tex dvi pdf ps |
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This lecture covers Linux in three parts. First we detail the operating system called Linux and outline what it does. Next we detail the Linux distributions and show how to install and configure them. Finally we detail the Linux social and business environment and discuss some of the current community issues. |
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Class 3, Feb 18, 2004 Web Servers html tex dvi pdf ps |
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This lecture covers the standards and concepts involved in Web Servers. We talk about the RFC standards in some detail. Then we present the source code for a full implementation of a standard Web Server and examine the network interactions. We demonstrate communicating with this Web Server using telnet by hand and using a standard web browser. Next we review ideas involved in using Apache, an open source web server. |
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Class 4, Feb 25, 2004 Version Control Systems html tex dvi pdf ps |
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Version Control Systems are software programs that maintain histories of changes to source code. We cover the most widely used system CVS in great detail. We then talk about some of CVS's shortcomings and introduce other systems that address these concerns. This lecture includes a guest presentation of GNU-Arch by James Black. |
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Class 5, Mar 10, 2004 Makefiles html tex dvi pdf ps |
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Makefiles automate the process of building systems. In recent years there has been a standardization on the method of building software. The primary tool is ``make'' and we explain how to build Makefiles. We explain the expectations of the standard ``configure'', ``make'', ``make install'' steps. We briefly cover the Autoconf and Automake tools. |
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Class 6, Mar 17, 2004 Email html tex dvi pdf ps |
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We examine the RFC standards behind electronic mail. We review a mail server, Postfix, in some detail. We give an example implementation of a program to fetch a single message. We give an example implementation of a program to watch a mail queue. |
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