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. §3.1–3.2.
Fri, Sep 29	More Rust programming Reading Rust book. §3.3–3.5.
Week 6
Mon, Oct 02	Ownership in Rust Reading The Urgent Need for Memory Safety in Software Products. Rust book. §4.1.	Lab 4: Wordle ahead
Wed, Oct 04	References Reading Rust book. §4.2–4.3.
Fri, Oct 06	Ownership II Reading Rust book. §4.2–4.5.
Week 7
Mon, Oct 09	Structure types I Reading Rust book. §5.1-5.2.	Lab 5: Gutensearch
Wed, Oct 11	Structures types II Reading Rust book. §5.3.
Fri, Oct 13	Enumerations Reading Rust book. §6.1–6.2.
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	TBA No reading	Lab 6: Processes I
Wed, Oct 25	TBA No reading
Fri, Oct 27	TBA No reading
Week 10
Mon, Oct 30	TBA No reading	Lab 7: Processes II
Wed, Nov 01	Regular expressions I Reading LCL. Chapter 19.
Fri, Nov 03	Regular expressions II No reading
Week 11
Mon, Nov 06	TBA No reading	Lab 8: Osh I
Wed, Nov 08	System calls I Reading Operating System Concepts Essentials: Chapter 2. Slides 1–17.
Fri, Nov 10	System calls II Reading J. Evans. How to spy on your programs with strace.
Week 12
Mon, Nov 13	UNIX Signals Reading Introduction to UNIX Signals and System Calls.	Lab 9: Osh II
Wed, Nov 15	Static Libraries Reading I.L. Taylor. Linkers. Read Linkers parts 1, 2, and 3.
Fri, Nov 17	Dynamic Libraries Reading A. Kili. Understanding Shared Libraries in Linux. Program Library HOWTO: Shared Libraries.
Week 13
Mon, Nov 20	TBA No reading	Lab 10: Threading
Wed, Nov 22	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.
Fri, Nov 24	No class: Thanksgiving break No reading
Week 14
Mon, Nov 27	TBA No reading	Lab 11: Networking
Wed, Nov 29	Advanced Git No reading
Fri, Dec 01	Memory unsafety: Introduction to control flow hijacking No reading
Week 15
Mon, Dec 04	TBA No reading	TBD or Group work day
Wed, Dec 06	TBA No reading
Fri, Dec 08	TBA No reading
Week 16
Mon, Dec 11	Last day of class No reading