UNIX TIME
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Upcoming

## Week 6: images

Working with images (jpg, png, pdf, gif, svg) from the command line.

Reading:

"Andy Warhol: An Artist and His Amiga", Guy Wright and Glenn Suokko, 1986

https://archive.org/stream/amiga-world-1986-01/Amiga_World_Vol_02_01_1986_Jan_Feb#page/n17/mode/2up

http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/public/warhol_amiga_report_v10.pdf

## Week 7: audio

Working with sound from the command line

Reading:

"Machine Tongues XVIII: A Child's Garden of Sound File Formats", Stephen Travis Pope and Guido Van Rossum, 1995

http://music.informatics.indiana.edu/~craphael/teach/I400web_backup/doc/pope95machine.pdf

## Week 8: video

Sound + Image = Video (from the command line)

Reading:

"MPlayer: The project from hell", Joe Barr, 2001

http://linux.sys-con.com/node/32880

Past Unix Times

## Week 5: games (12/20/2016)

Using the command line as a model for experience.

Reading:

http://www.arcadetheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SNiCC.pdf

## Week 4: connected computers (12/13/2016)

Connecting to remote computers, users and permissions, uploading and downloading files.

Reading:

Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/social-medias-dialup-ancestor-the-bulletin-board-system

BBS Documentary

https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary

## Week 3: email and text editing (12/06/2016)

Learning text editor basics, figuring out how to send an email on the command line, and dealing with encrypted text.

Reading:

"A Brief History of Secure E-mail", Hilarie Orman, 2015

http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9783319213439-c2.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1521204-p177556641.

## Week 2: commands & file system part 2 (11/29/2016)

Combining commands together using pipes, finding files and text within files on your computer, and talking to each other on a remote computer.

Reading:

Program design in the UNIX environment, Rob Pike / Brian W. Kernighan, 1984

http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf

## Week 1: commands & file sytem part 1 (11/22/2016)

Learning the command line prompt and getting around the hierarchy of files and folders.

Readings:

"Thirty useful unix commands"

http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~pjohnson/resources/unixShort/examples-commands.pdf

"The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System", Dennis M. Ritchie, 1979

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.pdf

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