Tacksoo Im

Professor Of Information Technology

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States
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Tacksoo Im is a Professor of Information Technology at Georgia Gwinnett College with 15 years of experience teaching programming and advancing software engineering research. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Clemson University and has progressed through assistant and associate ranks to a full professorship while maintaining active classroom and curriculum development roles. Hands-on with code, he produces practical teaching resources—such as a comprehensive bash scripting repository used to introduce students to Unix, Git, regex, and system tools—and emphasizes real-world tooling in his courses. Based in Lawrenceville, Georgia, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic software practices, mentoring students to bridge theory and production-ready development. Notably, he stays engaged in development work himself, reflecting a practitioner’s approach to scholarship and instruction.
code15 years of coding experience
bookPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Clemson University
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Github Skills (9)

sh10
git10
bash10
script10
shell10
scripting10
file-manipulation10
regular-expression9
system-administration8

Programming languages (4)

JavaShellCHTML

Github contributions (5)

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tacksoo/bash_basics

Sep 2013 - Aug 2021

Bash scripting basics for my students
Role in this project:
userFull-stack Developer
Contributions:72 commits, 8 PRs, 28 pushes in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tacksoo primarily focused on creating and modifying Bash scripts to teach basic Unix commands, Git usage, and general system administration. They added examples of input/output, arithmetic, control flow (if/else, loops, case), and functions. The user also integrated examples for regular expressions, file manipulation, and system utilities like `apt-get` and `netstat`, offering a comprehensive introduction to Bash scripting and related tools.
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ggc-itec/ggc-connect

May 2011 - May 2015

Contributions:228 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 4 years
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Tacksoo Im - Professor Of Information Technology