CPE802 Open Source Productivity Tools

3.0 Academic Units (credits) Academic Year 2008/09

Announcements

Meetings

• MW 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Lecture Theatre 10
• F 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Computing Lab 1, N4-B1b-10

Notices

• Exam: Regrettably, there will be finals.  It will be a closed book, written finals to be held on 11th June 2009, 9am to 11am @ NTU Nanyang Auditorium(Hall B).  It will last 2 hours and will make up 50% of your grade (the project was the other 50%).

   

• pbworks

• cpe802tips.pbworks.com - A collaborative site for the students of this class. Please contribute and share.

Check out this link - a table top Linux machine @ http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/?q=node/86

Interesting research showing that Firefox is gaining significant usage in Europe with some countries at nearly 50%. 

Course Summary

Welcome to the CPE802 wiki. This class will meet three times a week over four weeks starting on May 4, 2009.

This course will introduce you to the philosophy and principles of Free and Open Source Software and all the related tools and techniques. This course is not a programming class per se, but if you have programming backgrounds and/or are interested to learn about the use of open source technologies for software development, you are at the right place.

Official/backup NTU course description.

Syllabus

1. Philosophy of Open Source Software (OSS) and its contribution to innovation
2. History of OSS
3. The Principles and Practice of Open Standards and Interoperability
4. Brief introduction to pure OSS environments including Linux, XWindows, KDE, Gnome
5. Mixing OSS environments with proprietary OSes(cygwin and xwindows under Microsoft Windows)
6. Virtualization
7. The Magic of Live CDs
8. OSS Office productivity tools (OpenOffice, AbiWord, KOffice, Tex, LaTex, Lyx, Scribus), including spreadsheet, word processor, presentation, advanced drawing tools, and database connectivity for creating self-updating reports and graphs
9. OSS Web browsers (Mozilla Firefox)
10. OSS Mail client (Mozilla Thunderbird)
11. OSS Languages/Frameworks (LAMP, Ruby, Perl, PHP)
12. OSS Database manipulation (MySQL, Postgres)
13. OSS Graphics Manipulation (GIMP)
14. OSS Web Content Management and Collaboration Tools - Git/Subversion/CVS/Darcs, RSS, Wikis, Blogs
15. OSS Audio and Video Systems - Pod/Vidcasts, Jabber, SIP, unencumbered audio and video formats
16. OSS Security - GNU Privacy Guard, PKI
17. OSS, Google, Ajax, Web 2.0

Class Meetings - 2009

Grading/Exams

1. Finals will be on 11th June 2009 @ Nanyang Auditorium(Hall B) from 9am to 11am.
2. Grading will be: 50% from class project ProjectWork2009, 50% from the final exam
3. Final exam will be a 2-HOUR written exam, comprising 4 questions with equal weightage for the questions. No multiple choice questions though.

Instructor

External Resources

Discussions/FAQ

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