Welcome!

You'll find my course content and collaborative discussion about technology.

I teach as an adjunct faculty in the Computer Information Systems department at Spokane Community College

Email

kblake DOT scc AT gmail DOT com

Presentations/Interviews

RubyLearning.com interview
Course Technology - Ruby on Rails Presentation

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Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

October 22nd, 2007 |

I’ve been running gutsy gibbon for a few days now and it sure has been fun. My buddy had me run sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager to get to some wickedly cool desktop settings. I’ll report my experiences as I run into them. Furthermore, my linux class installed this today and one student commented that he was uninstalling Vista tonight.

CIS 206 - Chapter 6 Exercises (revised again)

October 15th, 2007 |

Due Tuesday, October 23rd Wednesday, October 24th Thursday, October 25th before class starts

• Answer all odd exercises at the end of the chapter. Do not do advanced exercises.

CIS 206 - Chapter 5 exercises

October 3rd, 2007 |

• Answer odd questions
• Due Wednesday, October 10th Friday, October 12th before class

Chapter 4 questions for CIS 206

October 2nd, 2007 |

Chapter 4

• Due Wednesday, October 3rd before class starts
• Odd numbered questions at the end of the chapter

CIS 206 - Introduction to Unix

October 1st, 2007 |

Book and Reference websites

• “A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux”, Sobell
• http://learnlinux.tsf.org.za/courses/build/fundamentals/fundamentals-all.html
• http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/toc.html

Objectives

• Problem solving
• Understand Linux operating system
• Understand Open Source philosophy

Course Outline

• Chapters 1, 2, and 3 – Welcome, overview, and installation
• Chapter 4 – Introduction to Linux
• Chapter 5 – Linux Utilities
• Chapter 6 – Linux Filesystem
• Chapter 7 – The Shell
• Chapter 8 – GUIs
• Chapter 9 – Bourne Again Shell (BASH)
• Chapter 13 – Downloading and Installing software