[DonaldPShimoda]

> Every undergraduate CS major at Purdue University is required to do the infamous shell lab

Huh. Is the course based on CMU's book "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective"? The CS:APP book is used by like a hundred schools nationwide and there's a shell lab there too: http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/shlab.pdf

My school (the University of Utah) used this book for one of our courses. Worse than the shell lab was implementing malloc by hand, haha. Rough weekend right there.

[pmorici]

The undergrad OS class at Purdue has a Malloc from scratch lab and a shell lab. Really great class, I don't know what if anything it is based on they had us buy the "Dinasaur" book but I don't remember ever using it that was a while ago now though.

[kingbirdy]

My school did it as well, the shell lab was our final project