Training and Education

• ExitCertified

  ExitCertified has partnered with Guru Labs to deliver Linux Courses right here in Sacramento.

  For information on the courses, click you this link to view the course outlines.

  http://www.exitcertified.com/courses/linux.html

  The Linux System Administration course, GL-250 will be offered the week of May 12.

  The Linux Network Services course, GL-275 will be offered the week of Jun 23.

• American River College

  American River College offers the following Linux courses during Spring 2005. For more information on all Linux CISC and CISN courses offered at American River College, contact Larry Dumais, dumaisl@arc.losrios.edu. For more information on Systems Programming and XML courses offered at American River College, contact Damon Antos, antosd@arc.losrios.edu.

  CISC 323 Operating Systems (1 unit)

  Description: This course introduces the Linux operating system for microcomputers. Concepts include kernels, file structures, daemons, shells, GUIs, procedures for installing software, creation of user accounts, shell commands, scripts, and file security.

  CISC 324 Intermediate Operating Systems (1 unit)

  Description: This course is a continuation of CISC 323. It covers advanced shell scripting. C Shell, K Shell, BASH and other varieties will be compared. It also includes decision-making logic, looping, nesting, and other scripting tools will be used.

  CISW 442 Web Publishing with XML (3 Units)

  Description: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a universal method for representing information that is especially well suited to distribution over the Internet. This course describes how to create well-formed and valid XML documents, which are later used in conjunction with Extensible Style Sheet Language (XSL) to produce Web pages and other result documents. Topics include formatting XML documents with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Document Type Definitions (DTD), XML Namespaces and Schemas, XPATH, and Extensible Style Sheet Language Transforms (XSLT).

  CISP 453 Introduction to Systems Programming - Linux (4 Units) -- Offered Fall 2005

  Description: This course is an introduction to systems programming concepts using the C language. It covers the features of the C language commonly used in systems programming, and the application of those features to systems programming in a Linux/UNIX environment. Topics include C preprocessor macros, I/O, bit-manipulation facilities; timesharing system concepts; shell script programming; make files and source code control; basic system calls including fork and exec; pointers and dynamic memory allocation; libraries and relocation and linking concepts including assembler handling of symbol tables. Additional foundational topics reviewed in this course are internal machine representation of numbers, linear linked lists, stacks, interrupt handling and memory addressing.