From: harley@engrhub.ucsb.edu (Harley Hahn,,,HAHN,personal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Unix textbook
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:57:48 GMT

In article <sjs.725051168@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu> sjs@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (Steve J. Schmidhauser) writes:
>SBCC's Com Sci dept. is going to be offering a new course on Unix. The 
>instructor has ask me for suggestion as to texbooks and course content.
>Please share your experience with us, TIA
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I know of the absolute best Unix textbook for students but
I am a bit biased because I wrote it :-)

So, to be fair, I will only say that it is called
"A Student's Guide to Unix" and it is oriented towards
the student/research/university/college/Internet environment.
With respect to course contents, for a beginning course
you could probably just follow the outline of the
book and do just fine.

The book will be available in February from the McGraw-Hill College
Division.  If you would like an evaluation copy or some information,
call your local McGraw-Hill sales rep.  If you would rather,
send email to the editor at McGraw-Hill (Eric Munson):

emunson@mgh.com

Tell him your school, what course you teach, your phone
and address, and all the standard information.

Since this is a newsgroup I don't want to get commercial,
especially about a book that I wrote myself, so I will
confine myself to including an abbreviated Table of Contents
and invite anyone who wants to email me for more details
(or find me at Usenix to talk about it, where we
will be having a Meet the Author type thing and there
will be advance copies to look at.)

However, if any of the manusacript reviewers who read this newsgroup
want to jump in with a few comments, please feel free.

-- Harley Hahn
harley@engrhub.ucsb.edu

Abbreviated Table of Contents for "A Student's Guide to Unix"
=============================================================
(Note: The book is written so that, after the first few chapters,
you can read the material in any order you want.)

 1) INTRODUCTION TO UNIX
 2) WHAT IS UNIX?
 3) THE UNIX CONNECTION
 4) STARTING TO USE UNIX
 5) STARTING WITH X WINDOW
 6) USING YOUR KEYBOARD WITH UNIX
 7) PROGRAMS TO USE RIGHT AWAY (INCLUDING GAMES)
 8) THE ONLINE UNIX MANUAL
 9) COMMAND SYNTAX
10) THE SHELL
11) USING THE C-SHELL
12) COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER PEOPLE
13) NETWORKS AND ADDRESSES
14) THE STANDARD UNIX MAIL PROGRAM
15) REDIRECTION AND PIPES
16) FILTERS
17) DISPLAYING FILES
18) PRINTING FILES
19) THE vi EDITOR
20) THE UNIX FILE SYSTEM
21) WORKING WITH DIRECTORIES
22) WORKING WITH FILES
23) USENET: THE WORLDWIDE NEWS SYSTEM
24) READING THE NEWS
25) INTERNET SERVICES


APPENDIX A: SUMMARY OF UNIX COMMANDS: ALPHABETICAL BY NAME
APPENDIX B: SUMMARY OF UNIX COMMANDS: BY CATEGORY
APPENDIX C: SUMMARY OF VI COMMANDS
APPENDIX D: THE ASCII CODE
APPENDIX E: LIST OF INTERNET TOP-LEVEL DOMAINS
APPENDIX F: LIST OF USENET NEWSGROUPS

GLOSSARY
READING LIST
INDEX OF VI COMMANDS
GENERAL INDEX

Inside back cover:  QUICK INDEX OF UNIX COMMANDS

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