[cs631apue] Welcome to CS631 APUE, Fall 2024!

[Jan Schaumann]

Hello, and welcome to CS631 Advanced Programming in
the UNIX Environment, Fall 2024!

This email is intended to give you a quick overview of
how this class will run this semester.  Please read it
carefully and in its entirety -- there are several
action items for you.

As you can tell, I've subscribed you to the class
mailing list (cs631apue at lists.stevens.edu); this will
be the primary means of asyncrhonous communication for
us.  It is a discussion list, not just for
announcements, so you are strongly encouraged do ask
questions or share interesting content here!

You will also receive an invite to the course Slack
channel (https://cs631apue2024.slack.com/).  Please
customize your profile there, add your preferred name
and pronouns, and say hi to each other.  We'll use
this channel to chat informally in semi-real time.
I'm looking forward to active discussions on there!

This class follows -- to some degree, anyway -- a
"flipped classroom" model, whereby the lecture content
is provided to you in the form of youtube videos
(posted to the class channel at
https://youtube.com/c/cs631apue) for consumption
_prior_ to our scheduled meeting time in class and we
will use our synchronous time for discussions,
clarifications, and follow-up questions.

Each week, please make sure you've watched the videos
before coming to class and please let me know what
aspects of the given week's materials you'd like me to
go over again or in more detail when we meet in
person.


Our first class will take place on 2024-09-09,
starting at 18:30 Eastern in Babbio 202.  (Note: this
room assignment has changed in the last few days, and
may change again before next week.  Double-check on
Monday to make sure it's still the right location.)

All class information, including the detailed
syllabus, is available from the course website at:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

Please bookmark that URL and regularly visit / reload
it.  The YouTube channel and existing video lectures
are linked to from there already.

Please also watch the first three video segments
(https://youtu.be/BsB9Cg6yJc4,
https://youtu.be/3H7SQWTR6Dw,
https://youtu.be/w3spRzZ8bSA), so that you are
prepared with follow-up questions for our first class.

Each week, there will be a short checkpoint to be
filled out online to help me gauge your understanding
of the materials for the week and what we may need to
cover in class.  The link is found in the syllabus; it
is your responsibility to remember to submit this
checkpoint.

For this week, that's:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/cgi-bin/631-01.cgi

As per the course website and introductory videos, we
will be doing all our work on a NetBSD system.  Please
make sure that you are set up for this prior to our
first class:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/#systems

If you have any questions at all about any of the
above, please make sure to send a mail to the class
mailing list: cs631apue at lists.stevens.edu

Please also feel free to discuss and exchange
information and help one another in the class Slack.

I'm looking forward to meet you all in class and to a
productive semester - see you all next week!

-Jan