CS 241: Systems Programming

Date	Topic and reading	Assignments
Week 1
Wed, Aug 27	Introduction [slides] No reading
Fri, Aug 29	UNIX and the shell [slides] Reading LCL. Chapters 1–5.
Week 2
Mon, Sep 01	No class: Labor Day No reading	Lab 0: Getting started
Wed, Sep 03	Shell 2 [slides] Reading LCL. Chapters 6–10, chapter 8 is optional.
Fri, Sep 05	Environment and expansion [slides] Reading LCL. Chapter 11 and optionally chapter 13.
Week 3
Mon, Sep 08	Version control and Git [slides] Reading Git book. Sections 1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, and 2.2.	Lab 1: Introduction to Bash
Wed, Sep 10	Shell scripting 1 [slides] Reading LCL. Chapters 24–27.
Fri, Sep 12	Shell scripting 2 [slides] Reading LCL. Chapters 29, 31–33.
Week 4
Mon, Sep 15	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.	Lab 2: Shell scripting
Wed, Sep 17	Basic Rust programming [slides] Reading Rust book. §3–3.2.
Fri, Sep 19	More Rust programming [slides] Reading Rust book. §3.3–3.5.
Week 5
Mon, Sep 22	Ownership in Rust [slides] Reading The Urgent Need for Memory Safety in Software Products. Rust book. §4–4.1.	Lab 3: Introduction to Rust
Wed, Sep 24	References [slides] Reading Rust book. §4.2–4.3.
Fri, Sep 26	Slices [slides] Reading Rust book. §4.4–4.5.
Week 6
Mon, Sep 29	Structure types [slides] Reading Rust book. Chapter 5.	Lab 4: Wordle ahead
Wed, Oct 01	Enumerations [slides] Reading Rust book. §6–6.3.
Fri, Oct 03	Processes [slides] Reading Rust book. §7–7.3.
Week 7
Mon, Oct 06	Modules in Rust [slides] Reading Rust book. §7.4–7.5.	Lab 5: Gutensearch
Wed, Oct 08	System calls I [slides] Reading Operating System Concepts Essentials. §2.3–2.4.
Fri, Oct 10	Unsafe Rust and pointers [slides] No reading
Week 8
Mon, Oct 13	System calls II [slides] Reading J. Evans. How to spy on your programs with strace.	Lab 6: Processes I
Wed, Oct 15	Generics and traits [slides] Reading Rust book. §10–10.1.
Fri, Oct 17	Catch up (Generics and traits) [slides] No reading
Week 9
Mon, Oct 20	No class: fall break No reading
Wed, Oct 22	No class: fall break No reading
Fri, Oct 24	No class: fall break No reading
Week 10
Mon, Oct 27	Generics and traits 2 [slides] Reading Rust book. §10.2.	Lab 7: Processes II
Wed, Oct 29	Lifetimes [slides] Reading Rust book. §10.3—10.4.
Fri, Oct 31	UNIX Signals [slides] Reading Introduction to UNIX Signals and System Calls.
Week 11
Mon, Nov 03	Advanced Git [slides] Reading Pro Git. Chapter 3.	Lab 8: Osh I
Wed, Nov 05	Closures [slides] Reading Rust book. §13.1.
Fri, Nov 07	More closures [slides] Reading Rust book. §13.2.
Week 12
Mon, Nov 10	Threads [slides] Reading Rust book. §16–16.2.	Lab 9: Osh II
Wed, Nov 12	Networking [slides] Reading J. Kurose and K. Ross. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach. §1–1.1.
Fri, Nov 14	More networking [slides] Reading Socket example. J. Kurose and K. Ross. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach. §2–2.1.2.
Week 13
Mon, Nov 17	More networking [slides] Reading Brian Hall. Beej’s Guide to Network Programming. §2–2.1.	Lab 10: Threading
Wed, Nov 19	Static Libraries [slides] Reading I.L. Taylor. Linkers. Read Linkers parts 1, 2, and 3.
Fri, Nov 21	Dynamic Libraries [slides] Reading A. Kili. Understanding Shared Libraries in Linux. Program Library HOWTO: Shared Libraries.
Week 14
Mon, Nov 24	Project work day No reading	Project work day
Wed, Nov 26	No class: Thanksgiving No reading
Fri, Nov 28	No class: Thanksgiving No reading
Week 15
Mon, Dec 01	Regular expressions I Reading LCL. Chapter 19.	Lab 11: Networking
Wed, Dec 03	Regular expressions II No reading
Fri, Dec 05	Memory unsafety: Introduction to control flow hijacking No reading
Week 16
Mon, Dec 08	TBA No reading	Project work day
Wed, Dec 10	Class wrap up No reading