Unix - Revision history

Monakhos at 22:22, 1 April 2012

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-After several moments of deliberation, I chose to create the page '''''Unix''''' as a starting point for this beginners guide to programming. More specifically, this project will start as a beginners autobiography on Ruby programming using Apple OSX 7 (Lion). You might be wondering if it's a good idea to follow a beginners guide written by a beginner. The answer is probably ''no''. But, then again, how useful have you found the ''beginners guides'' written by expert programmers? Rest assured, steps will not be overlooked do to over-estimation of the prior knowledge of the beginner... Me.
+'''<big>This is my beginners guide (autobiography) to Ruby programming.</big>''' It assumes you are somewhat computer savvy but know very little about UNIX and Ruby. Perhaps you've taken an introductory programming course in Java or C++, maybe you've built a website or two, or perchance your research project has you opening the terminal window from time to time. If any of those things are (approximately) true, and/or you have a penchant for computer utility, this guide should be very helpful. In case you haven't gleaned this fact, I don't know how to program using Ruby, and I will be learning and writing this guide at the same time. That's the point. If I can get everything set up on my machine and program something useful using Ruby, there's no reason you can't follow along, share my trials and tribulations, and ultimately learn (I mean really... LEARN) how to program in Ruby. Sound good?
-=== Unix Tidbits ===
+Here's the plan. I am going to use Ruby to do two things. First, I'm going to scrape the content of a website and do something useful with the data, like predict who will win the World Series this year. Second, I'm going to build a blogging or news website that interacts with a database. As I attempt these programming tasks, I'll log my thoughts and experiences in this guide as true-to-life as I can. The only time I will deviate from this concept is if I do something harmful to my computer. I will absolutely make the reader aware of this potential danger, and provide the correct way to complete the task. That said, you are encouraged to follow along using your own computer.
 * Once upon a time Bell Labs (the phone company) released UNIX to universities including Berkeley and MIT
 * Berkeley grad students (like Bill) improved the original UNIX system and released versions called BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) UNIX. Sun (SunOS or Solaris), HP, IBM, Bell SysIV, Novell and others continued to tinker with BSD.
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Monakhos at 03:38, 27 March 2012

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 * MIT gurus (e.g. Rich Stallman) made a GNU (''G''nu's Not Unix) version of UNIX, which is freely available. Free, meaning you can improve it and sell it, but the source code of whatever you sell is to be free to modify, sell, or give away (in turn, that product is also GNU).
 * A shell is a unix program that takes commands at the terminal
-* There are 2 main shell origins, one by a guy named Bourne and another by Bill. Bourne made the Bourne shell (resulting in <big><code>ksh</code></big> or <big><code>bash</code></big>) and Bill made the C shell (<big><code>csh</code></big>)
+* There are 2 main shell origins, one by a guy named Bourne and another by Bill. Bourne made the Bourne shell (resulting in <big><code>ksh</code></big> and <big><code>bash</code></big>) and Bill made the C shell (resulting in <big><code>csh</code></big> and <big><code>tcsh</code></big>)
 **Bourne shell prompts use a <big><code>$</code></big>
 **C shell prompts use a <big><code>%</code></big>

Monakhos at 03:16, 27 March 2012

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 After several moments of deliberation, I chose to create the page '''''Unix''''' as a starting point for this beginners guide to programming. More specifically, this project will start as a beginners autobiography on Ruby programming using Apple OSX 7 (Lion). You might be wondering if it's a good idea to follow a beginners guide written by a beginner. The answer is probably ''no''. But, then again, how useful have you found the ''beginners guides'' written by expert programmers? Rest assured, steps will not be overlooked do to over-estimation of the prior knowledge of the beginner... Me.
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 * Learn the proper way to install various programming languages on the Unix back-end of Mac OSX Lion
 ** Specifically on an Apple [http://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-i7-2.4-15-late-2011-unibody-thunderbolt-specs.html Macbook Pro] running Lion 10.7x

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After several moments of deliberation, I chose to create the page '''''Unix''''' as a starting point for this beginners guide to programming. More specifically, this project will start as a beginners autobiography on Ruby programming using Apple OSX 7 (Lion). You might be wondering if it's a good idea to follow a beginners guide written by a beginner. The answer is probably ''no''. But, then again, how useful have you found the ''beginners guides'' written by expert programmers? Rest assured, steps will not be overlooked do to over-estimation of the prior knowledge of the beginner... Me.

* Learn the proper way to install various programming languages on the Unix back-end of Mac OSX Lion
** Specifically on an Apple [http://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-i7-2.4-15-late-2011-unibody-thunderbolt-specs.html Macbook Pro] running Lion 10.7x