CS 241: Systems Programming

Date	Topic and reading	Assignments
Week 1
Fri, Sep 01	Introduction [slides] No reading
Week 2
Mon, Sep 04	No class No reading	Lab 0: Getting started
Wed, Sep 06	Introduction to UNIX and the shell [slides] Reading LCL. Chapters 1–5.
Fri, Sep 08	More shell [slides] Reading LCL. Chapters 6–10, chapter 8 is optional.
Week 3
Mon, Sep 11	Continuing with the shell No reading	Lab 1: Introduction to Bash
Wed, Sep 13	Environment and expansion [slides] Reading LCL. Chapter 11 and optionally chapter 13.
Fri, Sep 15	Version control and Git [slides] Reading Git book. Sections 1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, and 2.2.
Week 4
Mon, Sep 18	Shell scripting 1 [slides] Reading LCL. Chapters 24–27.	Lab 2: Shell scripting
Wed, Sep 20	Shell scripting 2 [slides] Reading LCL. Chapters 29, 31–33.
Fri, Sep 22	Introduction to Rust [slides] Reading Rust book. §1.2 and 1.3; read §1.1 for installation instructions on your own computer, if you want.
Week 5
Mon, Sep 25	No class: Yom Kippur No reading	Lab 3: Introduction to Rust
Wed, Sep 27	Basic Rust programming [slides] Reading Rust book. §3–3.2.
Fri, Sep 29	More Rust programming [slides] Reading Rust book. §3.3–3.5.
Week 6
Mon, Oct 02	Ownership in Rust [slides] Reading The Urgent Need for Memory Safety in Software Products. Rust book. §4–4.1.	Lab 4: Wordle ahead
Wed, Oct 04	References [slides] Reading Rust book. §4.2–4.3.
Fri, Oct 06	Slices [slides] Reading Rust book. §4.4–4.5.
Week 7
Mon, Oct 09	Catch up [slides] No reading	Lab 5: Gutensearch
Wed, Oct 11	Structure types [slides] Reading Rust book. Chapter 5.
Fri, Oct 13	Enumerations [slides] Reading Rust book. §6–6.3.
Week 8
Mon, Oct 16	No class: fall break No reading
Wed, Oct 18	No class: fall break No reading
Fri, Oct 20	No class: fall break No reading
Week 9
Mon, Oct 23	Processes [slides] Reading Rust book. §7–7.3.	Lab 6: Processes I
Wed, Oct 25	Modules in Rust [slides] Reading Rust book. §7.4–7.5.
Fri, Oct 27	System calls I [slides] Reading Operating System Concepts Essentials: Chapter 2. Slides 1–17.
Week 10
Mon, Oct 30	Unsafe Rust and pointers [slides] No reading	Lab 7: Processes II
Wed, Nov 01	System calls II [slides] Reading J. Evans. How to spy on your programs with strace.
Fri, Nov 03	Generics and traits [slides] Reading Rust book. §10–10.2.
Week 11
Mon, Nov 06	Generics and traits II [slides] Reading Rust book. §10–10.2.	Lab 8: Osh I
Wed, Nov 08	Lifetimes [slides] Reading Rust book. §10.3—10.4.
Fri, Nov 10	UNIX Signals [slides] Reading Introduction to UNIX Signals and System Calls.
Week 12
Mon, Nov 13	Catch up No reading	Lab 9: Osh II
Wed, Nov 15	Advanced Git [slides] Reading Pro Git. Chapter 3.
Fri, Nov 17	Closures [slides] Reading Rust book. §13.1—13.2.
Week 13
Mon, Nov 20	Threads [slides] Reading Rust book. §16–16.2.	Lab 10: Threading
Wed, Nov 22	Nothing No reading
Fri, Nov 24	No class: Thanksgiving break No reading
Week 14
Mon, Nov 27	More threads No reading	Lab 11: Networking
Wed, Nov 29	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.
Fri, Dec 01	Static Libraries [slides] Reading I.L. Taylor. Linkers. Read Linkers parts 1, 2, and 3.
Week 15
Mon, Dec 04	Dynamic Libraries [slides] Reading A. Kili. Understanding Shared Libraries in Linux. Program Library HOWTO: Shared Libraries.	Final project work day
Wed, Dec 06	Regular expressions I [slides] Reading LCL. Chapter 19.
Fri, Dec 08	Regular expressions II [slides] No reading
Week 16
Mon, Dec 11	Memory unsafety: Introduction to control flow hijacking No reading