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About the Course

Unix forms a foundation that is often very helpful for accomplishing other goals you might have for you and your computer, whether that goal is running a business, writing a book, curing disease, or creating the next great app. The means to these goals are sometimes carried out by writing software. Software can’t be mined out of the ground, nor can software seeds be planted in spring to harvest by autumn. Software isn’t produced in factories on an assembly line. Software is a hand-made, often bespoke good. If a software developer is an artisan, then Unix is their workbench. Unix provides an essential and simple set of tools in a distraction-free environment. Even if you’re not a software developer learning Unix can open you up to new methods of thinking and novel ways to scale your ideas. This course is intended for folks who are new to programming and new to Unix-like operating systems like macOS and Linux distributions like Ubuntu. Most of the technologies discussed in this course will be accessed via a command line interface. Command line interfaces can seem alien at first, so this course attempts to draw parallels between using the command line and actions that you would normally take while using your mouse and keyboard. You’ll also learn how to write little pieces of software in a programming language called Bash, which allows you to connect together the tools we’ll discuss. My hope is that by the end of this course you be able to use different Unix tools as if they’re interconnecting Lego bricks....

Top reviews

SG

Dec 17, 2017

Fantastic book for beginners as well as people who haven't worked on Unix for a long time. Brush up and get going. Very lucid presentation ; gitHub lessons were an additional plus

JD

Sep 30, 2018

Very useful course, I am using lots of remote high performance computers. This class definitely improves my understanding on Unix Shell and working efficiency.

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By Bruno A M

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Oct 8, 2017

Great content with accessible language and good challenges. Will definitely recommend!

By Vaseekaran V

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Jun 13, 2020

Great introductory course to learn UNIX/Linux commands and familiarize by using them.

By Jörg S

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Dec 31, 2017

You really learn something by doing. And the provided learning path really makes fun.

By Ben Z

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Feb 25, 2018

Great way to get an overview of the fundamentals of working with Unix-like computers

By Yang W

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Aug 17, 2020

This course is a good starting point to get familiar with the unix system and how c

By Zixuan L

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Feb 15, 2021

its pretty useful for beginner to take a look at unix shell, bash, and git command

By Hideaki M

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Jul 9, 2020

This course introduces bash, git and cloud computing. It is very informative.

By Miguel Á H G

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Feb 17, 2022

Muy bueno , claro y sencillo de entender con ejemplos de acuerdo a los temas

By Abhishek k

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Aug 29, 2019

I have learnt all the basics of linux and unix commands. Its helped me alot.

By José C

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Apr 6, 2018

Pretty interesting approach and broad useful content course. I recommend it

By Ricardo J

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Dec 19, 2020

Awesome hands-on course to learn Bash and the tools in the Unix workbench.

By Damian Y

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Sep 22, 2020

Excellent course for the very basics of Unix. Would recommend to a friend.

By Vinko B

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May 26, 2020

A well crafted and easy to follow introduction to Unix. Highly recommend.

By Jebin T R

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May 10, 2020

An exceptionally well-laid course. A good place to get started with Unix!

By Fazeel G

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May 8, 2018

It was a very educational course, and I would recommend it for beginners.

By Bayazid H S

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Jun 4, 2025

Whenever I look at the course it's perfectly awesome even when I revised

By T P K

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Aug 8, 2020

It was challlenging and I had a great experience while doing this course

By Abanob M K

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Jun 7, 2020

This course is very powerful , thanks to every one prepared that course.

By Dubba N

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Oct 10, 2019

Great experience through out the course and very good learning platform.

By jose m

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Aug 17, 2017

Looking forward to learn regex, awk and/or perl. Excellent introduction.

By Rahul R

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Jun 8, 2020

Even though I'm experienced in Unix, this course taught me many things!

By Afzalov V R

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Dec 27, 2019

Очень интересный курс для новичков! Задания понятны и легки в освоении.

By anil k

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Oct 25, 2017

A very good guided Course with lot of examples and real time scenarios.

By Kushtarbek K

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Nov 13, 2020

This course was very useful for my interesting about base of the Unix

By Brandon G

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May 15, 2019

Nice overview of the important UNIX (Shell) programming fundamentals.