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Evaluation of Student Skills in Unix Base Scripting Course

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ICEBT '19: Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3355166.3355169

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As UNIX-like operating systems are widespread in computing environments, UNIX scripting course is an important part of the first semester of our IT study program. The aim of this course is to provide basic understanding and experience with Linux command line; students learn how to automate repeated tasks required for running various lab experiments. Hands-on lab assignments are prepared for review and evaluation of the student learning process. Two web evaluation services for scripting skills checking were investigated. This paper presents the challenges faced when implementing and fine-tuning the course. It discusses three student skills evaluation methods used in the course.

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Zemánek PMuzikář Z(2023)Methodology and Infrastructure for Teaching Operating Systems Courses for Large Number of University Students2023 18th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10212062(1-4)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2023
https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10212062
Šuppa MJariabka OMatejov ANagy MSchulte CBecker BDivitini MBarendsen E(2021)TermAdventure: Interactively Teaching UNIX Command Line, Text Adventure StyleProceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3430665.3456387(108-114)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430665.3456387

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Evaluation of Student Skills in Unix Base Scripting Course
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. E-learning
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Command and control languages
      2. Scripting languages

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ICEBT '19: Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology

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DOI:10.1145/3355166

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Zemánek PMuzikář Z(2023)Methodology and Infrastructure for Teaching Operating Systems Courses for Large Number of University Students2023 18th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10212062(1-4)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2023
https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10212062
Šuppa MJariabka OMatejov ANagy MSchulte CBecker BDivitini MBarendsen E(2021)TermAdventure: Interactively Teaching UNIX Command Line, Text Adventure StyleProceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3430665.3456387(108-114)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430665.3456387

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