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Questions
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Results
of the final exam
Results
of the assignments
NEW: An
"essay" about Regular Expressions
Syllabus:
The syllabus, including the detailed description
of requirements, is available here.
Weekly programme:
1st
week: Introduction, basics of Unix, the file system.
2nd week:
Basic commands (man, pwd, cd, ls, cat,...); regular expressions for 'ls';
basic text editors (10 minutes of vi; pico), emailing (pine)
3rd week:
'chmod'; 'echo', 'cat', 'more', 'less'; pipes (|, <, >), standard input
and output; more commands (head, tail, rev, tr, wc, sort,...)
Practicum
4th week
(25-09): metacharacters, escapes, quotes, coding different alphabets; regular
expressions with 'grep'; ln and links (hard; soft = symbolic)
5th week
(02-10): emacs, xemacs and emailing with them; shell scripts, 'sed', N-grams,
'cut', 'paste'; telnet, ssh, lynx
6th week
(09-10): Article ("William B. Canvar en John M. Trenkle: N-Gram-Based Text
Categorization "), making a concordance (KWIC), Zipf's law
Practicum
7th week
(16-10): expressions, variables, conditions, cycles in Shell-script, 'set'
Practicum
8th week
(23-10): Perl: introduction, data types, operators
Practicum
9th week
(30-10): Perl (cont'd): regular expressions, arrays, files
Practicum
10th
week (06-11): Perl (cont'd): an example; understanding more about
UNIX; ftp, ps, kill, compression, tar, find, at, nohup, &,...
Time for the final
assignment
11th
week (13-11): Article ("G. Grefenstette, P. Tapanainen: What
is a word, What is a sentence? Problems of Tokenization"). Free time to
questions.
NEW: Time and place of
the final exam:
27 november, 9-12 uur, in de Unix-room
(H 12.102).
The exam will be composed of two parts:
1. Quick test on paper (nothing can be used);
2. Task at the computer, based on the final assignment
(any non human help can be used).
Tentamen en eindopdracht
Yes, there is already something...
Papers (ps-files)
Algemene info:PS-files,
PDF-files en LateX
Zelf installeren Perl
Ga naar de perl website, ga naar downloads
en kies het juiste pakket voor jouw operating system. Op UNIX/Linux kun
je kiezen tussen broncode (te compileren met C) en binary code (executable
Perl), voor Windows heb je ActivePerl. Naast het basisprogramma kun je
allerlei extra modules laden (ook verschillende archieven voor Unix en
Windows/ActivePerl). Lees info, FAQfiles e.d.
Files voor practicum (m.n. voor wie thuis op Linux werkt!)
Algemene info: Over
archiveren, comprimeren en extraheren