This short assignment is meant to get a basic Unix-compatible shell environment set up on your computer. We'll do this together in class during the first lecture.

This assignment consists of two different components:

1. You’ll familiarize yourself with RegEx by completing a few exercises
2. You’ll combine your RegEx and shell expertise to wrangle some words

This assignment consists of two different components:

1. You'll write a simple shell script that does some data analysis
2. You’ll get some practice using vim

This assignment consists of three different components:

1. You will modify your $PATH variable, shell prompt, and add aliases
2. You'll get some practice using the networking tools we learned about in Lecture 8
3. You'll run a small server that our grading machine will connect to

This assignment consists of three different components:

1. Do a Git tutorial
2. Practice using Git from the command line
3. Practice using GitHub

This assignment consists of two different components:

1. Practice using make and CI tools
2. Practice with profiling tools

This assignment consists of two different components:

1. Spoof an email
2. Set up SSH keys to sign a message

This assignment consists of two interconnected components:

1. Create and publish a Docker image on DockerHub
2. Launch a free tier instance on AWS and run a server on it (the same server you built in part 1!)

For your final project, we want you to explore a tool or concept from the course (or a tool that we didn't discuss in the course but that you are interested in!) in further detail. You will submit both slides and a written guide for the tool or concept you choose.