What Else for the Sudonomicon?

I started work last year on an introduction to systems programming for data scientists. I assumed learners were comfortable with the material covered in the Carpentries workshops on the Unix shell and Python: Unix shell: pwd; ls; cd; . and ..; rm and rmdir; mkdir; touch; mv; cp; tree; cat; wc; head; tail; less; cut; echo; history; find; grep; zip; man Current working directory; absolute and relative paths; naming files Standard input; standard output; standard error; redirection; pipes * and ? wildcards; shell variable with $ expansion; for loop Python for command-line scripting Variables; numbers and strings; lists; dictionaries; for and while loops; if/else; with; defining and calling functions; sys.argv, sys.stdin, and sys.stdout; simple regular expressions. Create a virtual environment; activate it and install packages. The topics I outlined then were: filesystems (e.g., what’s a symbolic link?) processes and job control the basics of the HTTP protocol accounts, permissions, and…

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