Lecture #2 - Windows and Linux Platforms

Web Resources, Supplementary Resources

Content:

1. Syllabus describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.

2. Projects:

   • Project #1, Project1HelpS19
     Text Search Components - COM for Windows and Custom component for Linux.
     C++11 Regular Expressions

     Classic Factory structure, Classic Factory creating polymorphic objects
     Illustrates how to create instances of a polymorphic type with clients knowing only the base class and factory interfaces.

     Object Factory Structure, Object Factory Project
     This project implements a factory that allows clients to use derived classes but only bind to their abstractions. It also demonstrates the use of products with multiple interfaces.

     Programming to Interfaces Presentation
     Discusses interfaces, layers, factories, and breaking design, compile, and static link dependencies.

     Protocol-DLLDemo Project
     Demonstrates how Dynamic Link Libraries are loaded implicitly and explicitly.
     To build successfully you need to build the libraries first, then the clients.
   • Final Project List
     Three presentations by student teams on their selected project.

3. Windows-Linux Comparison

4. Windows Platform:

   There are two distinctive features of the Windows operating system.
   • The facility to create and manipulate graphical user interface windows is built into the OS. That is not true of either Unix or Linux. Linux depends on external facilities like Gnome and GTK+ (ubuntu) or KDE and Qt (kubuntu)
   • Windows is deeply integrated with the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) technology. Many of the visible parts of windows and its tools are built with COM, e.g., the Windows shell, Windows Explorer, IE, WMI, Office, ...

     We will spend some time this semester to understand and use the COM model.

   Let's take a look at the structure of Windows:
   • Windows Technologies
   • Windows Directory Structure
   • Windows components - wikipedia
   • Windows API list
   • Process.h, Windows.h
   • Tech Links - Windows

5. Windows Scripting with PowerShell

   • PowerShell Script Examples
   • PowerShell Recipes:
     PowerShell help on Help, PowerShell help, PowerShell commands, PowerShell get service status, PowerShell gets, PowerShell verbs, PowerShell commands sorted by verb PowerShell commands sorted by noun
   • PowerShell Cheat Sheet #1
   • PowerShell Cheat Sheet #2
   • PowerShell Quick Reference
   • PowerShell Commands
   • Printing Story Cards - powershell example from codeproject

6. Linux Platform:

   Linux has traditionally been, like Unix, a command line oriented system, with most user interactions occuring through a terminal window. While that is still more or less true for many users, there now are default graphical shells that are started at bootup. A unique feature of Linux is that it is free. There are many distributions of Linux, each with its own characteristics - still identifiably Linux, but with different shells and different installed utilities.

   • Linux Technologies
   • Linux Directory Structure, Ubuntu Directory Structure
   • Linux Desktop Structure, Xlib context
   • POSIX Library, GNU C Library
     You will need to look at these when developing code for Linux.
   • Berkeley sockets, Sockets Library in Repository
   • Tech Links - Linux

7. Linux Programming Environments

8. Linux Shell Commands

9. Linux Shell Operations

10. Linux Scripting with bash

    Note:

    • By default, scripts run in a child process, so you can't change the environment of the parent process by running a script!
    • You can run a script in the parent process like this: source myScript.
    • bash scripting concepts, pptx
      bash script examples, upper.sh, finddirs.sh, read-echo.sh
    • Setting path and defining aliases: .bashrc, .profile
    • Bash for Beginners
    • Regular Exressions
    • Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
    • Use of Special Characters in bash
    • removing newlines
    • sed tutorial

11. Some ubuntu documentation

    • Ubuntu docs - beginners bash scripting
    • Environment Variables
    • Command Line How To
    • Advanced Command line How To
    • Using the terminal - summary of commands

12. References:

    Windows Commands, Windows God mode