TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	Second Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) It is expected to master the basic Linux operating system concepts 2) It is expected to be able to develop programming algorithms 3) It is expected to be able to develop basic C programs
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course aims to introduce to students the logics of computer operations, how problems can be solved with the use of computers and to provide the elementary aspects of programming. For these purposes the Linux operating system and the C programming language will be used
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Main introduction to Operating Systems.. Character and Graphical User Interfaces 2nd Week Types of Operating Systems. Linux OS Family. History of Linux. Linux distributions. Installing Linux. Computer Hardware 3rd Week Linux software architecture. Linux GUI. XFREEE86 and other Linux GUI's. Linux application software. Linux CUI: console, shells, shell startup files 4th Week Working with text files. File structure, file types. 5th Week Navigating between files and folders. File operations. Files Access rights. Password based security 6th Week Advanced file operations. Computer Networks and computer communications. TCP/IP protocol stack. Client/server architecture 7th Week Processes: Linux process states. Foreground and Background processes. Linux Daemons 8th Week MIDTERM I 9th Week Algorithms. Developing a C program. The structure of a C program. Comments, preprocessor directives 10th Week Main function. Variable decleration, data types, reserved words, identifiers, variables 11th Week Constants, declerations and assignments, arithmetic operations, arithmetic notations, input output operations, ready functions 12th Week Boolean operators, AND OR operations. The IF/ELSE cstructure. 13th Week Loops. The FOR structure, the WHILE loop. 14th Week MIDTERM II
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	"Linux: The Textbook", Sarwar, Koretsky, Sarwar, Addison Wesley "Linux for Programmers and Users", Glass, Ables, Prentice Hall "Problem Solving and Program Design in C", Jeri R. Hanly, Elliot B. Koffman, 5th edition, Addison Wesley, 2006 "C How to Program", Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, 4th edition, Prentice Hall, 2003 "Programlamayı C ile Öğreniyorum", M. Yorulmaz, S. Yorulmaz, Palme Yayıncılık, Yenilenmiş 3. Baskı
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Questions/Answers,Case Study,Problem Solving
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 2 50 Assignment 5 5 Quiz 5 5 Total(%) 60 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No