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 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 Reading LCL. Chapters 6–10, chapter 8 is optional.
Fri, Sep 05	Environment and expansion Reading LCL. Chapter 11 and optionally chapter 13.
Week 3
Mon, Sep 08	Version control and Git 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 Reading LCL. Chapters 24–27.
Fri, Sep 12	Shell scripting 2 Reading LCL. Chapters 29, 31–33.
Week 4
Mon, Sep 15	Introduction to Rust 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 Reading Rust book. §3–3.2.
Fri, Sep 19	More Rust programming Reading Rust book. §3.3–3.5.
Week 5
Mon, Sep 22	Ownership in Rust Reading The Urgent Need for Memory Safety in Software Products. Rust book. §4–4.1.	Lab 3: Introduction to Rust
Wed, Sep 24	References Reading Rust book. §4.2–4.3.
Fri, Sep 26	Slices Reading Rust book. §4.4–4.5.
Week 6
Mon, Sep 29	Structure types Reading Rust book. Chapter 5.	Lab 4: Wordle ahead
Wed, Oct 01	Enumerations Reading Rust book. §6–6.3.
Fri, Oct 03	Processes Reading Rust book. §7–7.3.
Week 7
Mon, Oct 06	Modules in Rust Reading Rust book. §7.4–7.5.	Lab 5: Gutensearch
Wed, Oct 08	System calls I Reading Operating System Concepts Essentials: Chapter 2. Slides 1–17.
Fri, Oct 10	Unsafe Rust and pointers No reading
Week 8
Mon, Oct 13	System calls II Reading J. Evans. How to spy on your programs with strace.	Lab 6: Processes I
Wed, Oct 15	Generics and traits Reading Rust book. §10–10.2.
Fri, Oct 17	Project work day 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 No reading	Lab 7: Processes II
Wed, Oct 29	Lifetimes Reading Rust book. §10.3—10.4.
Fri, Oct 31	UNIX Signals Reading Introduction to UNIX Signals and System Calls.
Week 11
Mon, Nov 03	Advanced Git Reading Pro Git. Chapter 3.	Lab 8: Osh I
Wed, Nov 05	Closures Reading Rust book. §13.1—13.2.
Fri, Nov 07	More closures No reading
Week 12
Mon, Nov 10	More threads Reading Rust book. §16–16.2.	Lab 9: Osh II
Wed, Nov 12	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 14	More networking Reading Socket example.
Week 13
Mon, Nov 17	More networking No reading	Lab 10: Threading
Wed, Nov 19	Static Libraries Reading I.L. Taylor. Linkers. Read Linkers parts 1, 2, and 3.
Fri, Nov 21	Dynamic Libraries 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