Topics

• C Programming
  • Arrays, pointers, structures, functions
  • Binary operations (and, or, xor, negate, shift)
  • Logical operations (and, or, not)
  • Command-line arguments
  • Environment variables
  • Console input and output
  • Pre-processor directives
  • Time functions
• Linux programming
  • System call interface
  • System calls for file access (open, close, read, write)
  • Device files
  • Sleep functions
• Linux kernel modules
  • Basic idea of kernel modules
  • Kernel / User space separation
  • Structure of a basic kernel module
  • Structure of a device driver
  • Servicing user-space programs
  • Direct hardware access
• Libraries
  • Static
  • Shared
  • Dynamic
  • dl interface