SPUG: Stand-By Seats, Perl/UNIX Training, Dec in Seattle
Tim Maher/CONSULTIX
tim at consultix-inc.com
Sat Nov 27 18:34:56 CST 1999
From: Tim Maher, CONSULTIX
To: Former and Future Students
RE: Complimentary Training on UNIX & Perl
Our company provides instructor-led software training classes,
primarily in on-site offerings for Fortune 500 companies, but also
in public classes in the greater Seattle area.
Although most of our training classes fill up rapidly, sometimes
we have empty seats left over as class time approaches - especially
around the holidays! But instead of running a class with empty seats,
we'd rather put grateful people in them. In fact, we've trained
hundreds of "stand-by" students on this basis, including seven this
past October alone.
Why do we offer complimentary software training?
To:
* give new corporate clients a chance to observe the quality of
our services,
* help budget-strapped individuals obtain the training they need, and
* give something back to the OpenSource movement (trained individuals!)
We're currently anticipating some openings for complimentary seats in
the following classes:
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CLASS DATES LOCATION
UNIX Fundamentals 12/07-12/10/99 Kirkland
Perl Programming, plus Modules 12/13-12/16/99 Seattle
Adv. Pattern Matching with Perl 12/17/19/99 Seattle
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Course outlines are provided below (and are also available from our
Web-site.)
HOW TO APPLY FOR COMPLIMENTARY TRAINING
If you're interested in being considered for a complimentary seat,
visit our Web page, read the Terms carefully, and fill out the
Application Form.
PAID REGISTRATION AVAILABLE TOO!
If you don't feel lucky but still want to attend one of our classes,
you can register in the usual way at our Web-site:
http://www.consultix-inc.com
Course outlines follow . . . Happy Holidays!
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| Tim Maher, PhD Consultix & (206) 781-UNIX/8649 |
| Pacific Software Gurus, Inc Email: tim at consultix-inc.com |
| UNIX/Linux & Perl Training http://www.consultix-inc.com |
|Classes: 12/7 UNIX Fund; 12/13 Perl+Modules; 1/18 Int. Perl |
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UNIX FUNDAMENTALS
by CONSULTIX
http://www.consultix-inc.com
Next Offering: Dec. 7-10, 1999
Kirkland, WA USA
DESCRIPTION
This lecture/lab course teaches computer users to make productive
use of the UNIX operating system. The most important and empowering
concepts, such as pattern matching, command editing, shell scripting,
and pipelines are emphasized, alongside coverage of basic OS utilities
and services. 40% of class time is spent in supervised laboratory
activities, with students using a Korn (POSIX) shell interface to UNIX.
(The course does not cover the use of windowing interfaces to UNIX.)
Although this is intended as a first course in UNIX, it is especially
well suited for those who wish to become "power users", Programmers,
or System-, Database-, Network-, or Web-Administrators. The course
material is applicable to all UNIX and UNIX-like systems (including
Linux).
PREREQUISITES
A conceptual understanding of elementary computer terms, such as
memory, disk storage, and time-sharing. Typing skills are beneficial,
as is familiarity with other operating systems, such as DOS and
its relatives.
AUTHOR & INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Tim Maher has been an avid user of UNIX since 1976, and, since the
early 80s, he has taught literally thousands of others to make the most
of it. He has authored 16 UNIX courses, including ones taught by AT&T.
CONSULTIX instructors are renowned for their ability to communicate
complex concepts in simple terms and to make the study of dry technical
material enjoyable. (http://www.consultix-inc.com/evals.html)
TOPICS
INTRO. to UNIX THE VI EDITOR
History of UNIX Creating Files
Logging In, Logging Out Modifying Files
The Password System THE UNIX SHELLS
Using the on-line Manual Shell Comparisons
Accessing the Printer Quoting Techniques
THE UNIX FILESYSTEM Shell Scripts
File Types Startup Files
Pathnames Variables
Permissions Aliases
User and Group IDs History Substitutions
FILE UTILITIES Command Editing
ls, find, chmod Filename Wildcards
cp, mv I/O Redirection
cat, more, head, tail Pipelines
rm, rmdir, mkdir Background Execution
UNIX NETWORKING Job Control
TCP/IP REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
ping Command grep Command
E-Mail sed Command
Firewalls Using with VI Editor
Proxies THE PROCESS HIERARCHY
Remote Access Commands The ps Command
rsh, rlogin, rcp Process Priorities
ssh, slogin, scp Process Control
PERL PROGRAMMING, Plus "MODULES" (4 days)
by CONSULTIX
http://www.consultix-inc.com
Next Offering: December 13-16, 1999
Seattle, WA USA
DESCRIPTION
PERL is a popular and powerful language that can be applied to
a wide range of data processing problems. Students will learn
the basic features of PERL and gain experience in writing typical
applications that validate data, generate reports, convert text files,
and perform numerical analyses. This class consists of our basic
Perl Programming class plus additional material on Perl Modules .
Lecture and lab sessions emphasize the "Getopt" (option processing),
"Text" (simple text formatting), "LWP" (Internet access) and "CGI"
(Web-page form-handling) modules.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Students should have at least 6 months of prior experience with UNIX,
be competent users of the VI editor, and have prior programming
experience in a modern high-level language (C, AWK, Shell, etc.).
The course is intended for UNIX programmers, system administrators,
network administrators, data administrators, and webmasters.
AUTHOR & INSTRUCTORS
Dr. Tim Maher has been working with the interpreted languages of UNIX
for over 20 years. He has used them to write many sophisticated
applications, including a user interface for U.C. Berkeley
undergraduates and source code beautifiers for Perl and C++. As the
founder and head of Consultix, Tim regularly teaches courses on a
wide variety of UNIX topics.
COURSE TOPICS
Language Features Programming Applications
Data Types General Scripting
Conditional Execution Text Processing
Files & Pipelines File Conversion
Variables and Arrays Number Crunching
Flow Control Data Validation
Subroutines Report Generation
Fields and Records Option Processing
Input & Output Text Formatting
Regular Expressions Generating Web Pages
Perl Modules CGI Form Creation
Getopt, Text, LWP CGI Form Processing
CGI, Benchmark . . .
ADVANCED PATTERN MATCHING With PERL (1 day)
by CONSULTIX
http://www.consultix-inc.com
Next Offering: December 17, 1999
Seattle, WA USA
DESCRIPTION
This class shows Perl programmers how to use advanced features
of Perl's Regular Expression notation, matching and substitution
operators, and the split operator. Practical applications of these
skills to typical data processing tasks are emphasized in hands-on
lab sessions.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Students should have at least 6 months of prior experience with Perl,
and be competent users of the VI editor. The course is intended
for UNIX programmers, system administrators, network administrators,
data administrators, and webmasters.
AUTHOR & INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Tim Maher has been working with the interpreted languages of UNIX
for over 20 years. He has used them to write many sophisticated
applications, including a user interface for U.C. Berkeley
undergraduates and source code beautifiers for Perl and C++. As the
founder and head of Consultix, Tim regularly teaches courses on a
wide variety of UNIX topics.
Consultix instructors are renowned for their ability to communicate
complex concepts in simple terms and to make the study of dry technical
material enjoyable.
COURSE TOPICS
line-anchors capturing () matching modes
string-anchors non-capturing () fuzzy matching
word-anchors stingy matching pattern ranges
back-references lookahead match variables
grouping split delimiters RE efficiency
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| Tim Maher, PhD Consultix & (206) 781-UNIX/8649 |
| Pacific Software Gurus, Inc Email: tim at consultix-inc.com |
| UNIX/Linux & Perl Training http://www.consultix-inc.com |
|Classes: 12/7 UNIX Fund; 12/13 Perl+Modules; 1/18 Int. Perl |
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