CS 241: Systems Programming

Date	Topic and reading
Week 1
Mon, Feb 03	Introduction [slides] No reading
Wed, Feb 05	Introduction to UNIX and the shell [slides] [exercises] Reading LCL. Chapters 1–5.
Fri, Feb 07	More shell [slides] [exercises] Reading LCL. Chapters 6–10, chapter 8 is optional.
Week 2
Mon, Feb 10	Environment and expansion [slides] [exercises] Reading LCL. Chapter 11 and optionally chapter 13.
Wed, Feb 12	Version control and Git [slides] [exercises] Reading Git book. Sections 1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, and 2.2.
Fri, Feb 14	Shell scripting 1 [slides] [exercises] Reading LCL. Chapters 24–27.
Week 3
Mon, Feb 17	Shell scripting 2 [slides] [exercises] Reading LCL. Chapters 29, 31–33.
Wed, Feb 19	Introduction to C [slides] [exercises] Reading CJP. Chapters 1, 2, and section 3.8. MC. Level 1's 'Buckle up' and chapter 7 through section 7.1.
Fri, Feb 21	More C [slides] [exercises] No reading
Week 4
Mon, Feb 24	Structure of C programs [slides] [exercises] Reading CJP. Chapter 4 through section 4.5, skip section 4.5.1.
Wed, Feb 26	Make and compiling [slides] [exercises] Reading CJP. Section 4.5.1. GNU Make Manual. Chapter 2.
Fri, Feb 28	Bits and bytes 1 [slides] [exercises] Reading MC. Section 5.2 through 5.5, ignore the parts about complex. Read 5.7 if you're feeling ambitious.
Week 5
Mon, Mar 02	Bits and bytes 2 [slides] [exercises] Reading Bitwise operations in C.
Wed, Mar 04	Pointers and arrays [slides] Reading CJP. Section 3.1 and Chapter 5 through Section 5.3. MC. Section 6.1 through 6.1.4, Chapter 11 through Section 11.1, and Section 11.3.
Fri, Mar 06	Strings [slides] [exercises] Reading CJP. Sections 3.2, 5.4, and 5.5.
Week 6
Mon, Mar 09	Enums and structs [slides] [exercises] Reading CJP. Sections 3.3, 3.4, and 5.6.
Wed, Mar 11	Dynamic memory allocations [slides] [exercises] Reading MC. Section 13.1.
Fri, Mar 13	Debugging [exercises] Reading GDB Tutorial: A Walkthrough with Examples. GDB Tutorial. Skip "How to install GDB?".
Week 7
Mon, Mar 16	No class: COVID-19 No reading
Wed, Mar 18	No class: COVID-19 No reading
Fri, Mar 20	No class: COVID-19 No reading
Week 8
Mon, Mar 23	No class: spring break No reading
Wed, Mar 25	No class: spring break No reading
Fri, Mar 27	No class: spring break No reading
Week 9
Mon, Mar 30	Linked lists [slides] [exercises] Reading Linked lists.
Wed, Apr 01	File I/O in C [slides] [exercises] No reading
Fri, Apr 03	Binary and Formatted I/O [slides] [exercises] Reading MC. Sections 8.1 and 8.3.
Week 10
Mon, Apr 06	Multi-dimensional arrays [slides] [exercises] Reading CJP. Sections 5.7 and 5.8.
Wed, Apr 08	Regular expressions I [slides] Reading LCL. Chapter 19.
Fri, Apr 10	Regular expressions II [slides] [exercises] No reading
Week 11
Mon, Apr 13	Function pointers [slides] [exercises] Reading CJP. Section 5.11.
Wed, Apr 15	System calls I [slides] [exercises] Reading Operating System Concepts Essentials: Chapter 2. Slides 1--17.
Fri, Apr 17	System calls II [slides] [exercises] Reading J. Evans. How to spy on your programs with strace.
Week 12
Mon, Apr 20	UNIX Signals [slides] [exercises] Reading Introduction to UNIX Signals and System Calls.
Wed, Apr 22	Static Libraries [slides] [exercises] Reading I.L. Taylor. Linkers. Read Linkers parts 1, 2, and 3.
Fri, Apr 24	Dynamic Libraries [slides] [exercises] Reading A. Kili. Understanding Shared Libraries in Linux. Program Library HOWTO: Shared Libraries.
Week 13
Mon, Apr 27	Huffman compression [slides] No reading
Wed, Apr 29	Huffman's algorithm (continuing Monday's lecture) No reading
Fri, May 01	Introduction to networking Reading P. Fatourou and E. Kosmas. Introduction to Sockets Programming in C using TCP/IP. Read as much as you would like to know.
Week 14
Mon, May 04	Variadic functions [slides] [exercises] No reading
Wed, May 06	Advanced Git [slides] [exercises] No reading
Fri, May 08	Memory unsafety: Introduction to control flow hijacking [slides] No reading