Learning Linux Essentials: Taking your first steps in Linux

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome

Lecture 2: Course Outline

Lecture 3: What is Linux Essentials

Lecture 4: What you will need

Lecture 5: 2024 Update: Using Windows Subsystem for Linux

Lecture 6: Installing VirtualBox onto Windows

Lecture 7: Install Ubuntu into VirtualBox

Lecture 8: Install Guest Additions

Lecture 9: Using the Raspberry Pi

Lecture 10: Summary

Chapter 2: Linux Evolution and Popular Operating Systems

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Open Source Software Philosophy

Lecture 3: Popular Linux Distrubutions

Lecture 4: Embedded Linux Systems

Lecture 5: Summary

Chapter 3: Major Open Source Software

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Desktop Applications

Lecture 3: Using LibreOffice

Lecture 4: Using Thunderbird Email Client

Lecture 5: Web Browsers in Linux

Lecture 6: Creating Graphics with GIMP

Lecture 7: Server Applications

Lecture 8: Linux Web Servers

Lecture 9: Database Servers with MySQL

Lecture 10: Samba and NFS File Servers

Lecture 11: Development Languages in Linux

Lecture 12: Programming in C

Lecture 13: Programming with Java

Lecture 14: Scripting with BASH

Lecture 15: Scripting with PERL

Lecture 16: Scripting with Python

Lecture 17: Software Management

Lecture 18: Summary

Chapter 4: Understanding Open Source Software and Licensing

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Open Source Licensing

Lecture 3: Open Source Organizations

Lecture 4: Business Models

Lecture 5: Summary

Chapter 5: ICT Skills and Working in Linux

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: So what do your need to know?

Lecture 3: Desktop Skills

Lecture 4: Using the Command Line Interface

Lecture 5: Managing User Passwords

Lecture 6: Where is Linux Used

Lecture 7: Activity: Research Where Linux is Used

Lecture 8: Summary

Chapter 6: Command Line Basics

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Welcome to the Command Line

Lecture 3: Command Line Syntax

Lecture 4: BASH Variables

Lecture 5: Converting Character Case

Lecture 6: Shell Quoting

Lecture 7: Quoting Gotchas

Lecture 8: File Globbing

Lecture 9: BASH History

Lecture 10: Summary

Chapter 7: Using the Command Line to get Help

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: What Help is Available

Lecture 3: Command Line Help

Lecture 4: Using MAN pages

Lecture 5: Using INFO pages

Lecture 6: System Documentation

Lecture 7: Summary

Chapter 8: Using Directories and Listing Files

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: The Linux File System

Lecture 3: It all started with ls

Lecture 4: All Change: Using cd

Lecture 5: Knowing the dot and dot dot Directories

Lecture 6: The Home Directory and the Tilde

Lecture 7: Activity: Changing Directories

Lecture 8: Summary

Chapter 9: Copying, Deleting Moving and Renaming Files

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: File Types in Linux

Lecture 3: Copy Files with cp

Lecture 4: Move and Rename with mv

Lecture 5: Create Files and Directories

Lecture 6: Delete Files and Directories

Lecture 7: Summary

Chapter 10: Archiving Files from the Command Line

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: What will we be doing?

Lecture 3: Using the command tar

Lecture 4: Zipping files with compession programs

Lecture 5: Combine tar and gzip into the one operation

Lecture 6: Activity: Backup $HOME

Lecture 7: Summary