Welcome!

In 2019, three student tutors at UC Davis recognized that there exists a gap in knowledge between what is taught in introductory programming courses and what is expected in later courses and industry internships.

The objective of this course is to bridge some of this gap. Inspired by the issues we have observed as students and instructors, we will take a hands on approach to learning about the tools and practices that make up a developers toolbox!

Course content

This course is divided into a total of ten modules, which are organized in four main topics:

• I. Linux & the command-line interface (CLI)
  • 1/ Course introduction and using Linux
  • 2/ Introduction to the command line
  • 3/ Advanced command line usage
• II. Testing & debugging
  • 4/ Software testing
  • 5/ Debugging methodologies
  • 6/ Using the GNU debugger
• III. Scripting
  • 7/ Shell scripting
  • 8/ Regular expressions
  • 9/ Text processing (using sed & awk)
• IV. Version control
  • 10/ Version control (using git)

Each main topic can be accessed using the navigation bar above. Modules within a unit can then be accessed using the menu in the left sidebar.

Authors

This course was created by Grant Gilson, Stephen Ott, and Noah Rose Lesdesma, with the assistance of Prof. Joël Porquet-Lupine and Aakash Prabhu.