Description

This is a hybrid course that aims to equip students with foundational knowledge on operating systems and computer networking. Operating Systems: knowledge of the mainstream operating systems, Microsoft Windows and Linux, security and access control strategies, shell commands and scripting, as well as enterprise-level features of various OSes. Students should be able to demonstrate ability to compare and contrast these two OSes. Students should also be comfortable with using the command line interface, including skills to troubleshoot issues pertaining to environment variables and misbehaving applications. Students should also get experience with installing Windows and Linux from scratch either on a real laptop/PC or a virtual machine. Networking: foundational networking concepts useful for programming, including TCP/IP concepts, ports, routing concepts, basic network-related security issues. Students are expected to work on real switches and routers as well as set up a simple LAN, configure the network settings for Windows, Linux, and optionally MacOS machines, to join this network, and perform basic network-related troubleshooting. Students should also be able to appreciate how the Internet works, including knowledge on DNS, gateways, the client/server architecture of Web servers and how a packet is routed from origin to destination. Students should also be able to write simple high-level programs in Python that communicate across the network. This course is specially designed to be industry-focused with hands-on practice.

Learning Outcomes

Graduate Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary Knowledge, Critical thinking & problem solving, Communication

Competencies

Network Configuration, Network Security, Software Configuration, Network Administration and Maintenance, Security Administration