CS 241 - Systems Programming

Calendar

(Will be updated throughout the semester)

WEEK	DAY	ANNOUNCEMENTS	READING	HW
1	Feb 04		Introduction and course overview	HW 0 - Intro
	Feb 06		Introduction to C and Compilation Read HFC Ch1, CiaN Ch1 "Language Basics", the "How the C Compiler Works" section to the end
	Feb 08		Makefiles HFC Ch4 - Compilation behind the Scenes to end of chapter Run vimtutor and the emacs tutorial(Control-h t)
2	Feb 11		Version control and Git Read 21CC Ch 4 Interactive Git/Github tutorial	HW 1
	Feb 13	Last Day to Add/Drop	Making and Compiling Practice
	Feb 15		Basic shell scripting Read Classic Shell Scripting, Ch 2 (Optional)BASH Prompt HOWTO
3	Feb 18		Basic shell scripting Read Classic Shell Scripting, Ch 6 (Optional)Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide	HW 2 - Shell Scripts
	Feb 20		Shell Script Looping
	Feb 22		Shell Script Looping
4	Feb 25		Regular expressions, sed and grep Read Classic Shell Scripting, Ch 3 Regular Expressions - User Guide Up See Intro to AWK for AWK information
	Feb 27		No class today	HW 3 - Regular Expressions
	Mar 01	RJH Travelling Guest lecturer TBA	Guest Lecture, "How to Present" by Faith Schaeffer
5	Mar 04		Projects & Useful Tools
	Mar 06		Types and operators Read CiaN Ch 2, 3 (Skip Conversion of Nonarithmetic Types through end)	HW 4 - Bits
	Mar 08		Types and operators Read CiaN Ch 4, 5
6	Mar 11		GDB and Testing Read 21st Century C, Ch 2, "Using a Debugger" CiaN, Ch21, "Sample Debugging Session"
	Mar 13		Control flowRead CiaN Ch 6)
	Mar 15		Functions and scopeRead CiaN Ch 7
7	Mar 18		Pointers and arrays Read CiaN Ch 9, HFC Ch 2
	Mar 20		Strings and pointers	HW 5 - Pig Latin
	Mar 22		Project Proposals
	Mar 25	Spring Break (Mar 23-31)
	Mar 27
	Mar 29
8	Apr 01		Command line arguments
	Apr 03		Multi-dimensional arrays Read HFC Ch 7 to p. 333
	Apr 05		Multi-dimensional arrays Read HFC Ch 7 to p. 333
9	Apr 08	Last Day for P/NP, CR/NE, or Withdraw	Structures Read HFC Ch 5, 6	HW 6 - Sorting
	Apr 10		Self-referential structures
	Apr 12		typdef, unions, bit-fields Read CiaN, Ch10, p169 to end, Ch 11, pp. 184-186
10	Apr 15		Input and Output, errors Read HFC Ch 3
	Apr 17		Formatted I/O, line input Read CiaN Ch 13
	Apr 19		Variable arguments, getopt Read HFC Ch 7, p. 343 to end	HW 7 - Big Numbers
11	Apr 22		Huffman compression
	Apr 24		Compression, part 2 Read HW 6 assignment
	Apr 26		System calls overview Read HFC Ch 9	HW 8 - Huffman Compression
12	Apr 29		Advanced git
	May 01		Web Development 101
	May 03		Advanced Web Development
13	May 06	RJH Travelling Guest lecturer TBA	Guest Lecture TBD
	May 08	RJH Travelling Guest lecturer TBA	Guest Lecture TBD
	May 10		Open Source Software