Introduction to UNIX OS, history, features, architecture, basic utility commands such as cp, mv, mkdir,rm, ls, grep, find, sed, file utility commands, file attributes, ownerships,ermissions and other related utility commands, Usage of vi/vim editor, for programming in C/C++, compilers, debuggers, profilers (like gprof), makefiles, IDEs (for Java development like eclipse), Shell and shell programming, process control commands such as ps, nice, at, mesg, cron, etc, Assignments for lab sessions.