Course Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule for the course (subject to change).

Topic	Deadlines & Materials
Week 1: January 19 – 25
Course Overview Lecture 1 Recording VM Setup Lecture 2 Recording	Connecting to the CS Network 521 Class IDs Virtual Machines: VM Setup Guide VM Command Manual
Week 2: January 26 – February 1
SSH, Beginning C Lecture 3 Recording Dev Environment Setup Lecture 4 Recording C Data Types, Command Line Arguments Lecture 5 Recording	Reading: K&R Ch 1.1 – 1.4, 1.7 Unix Command: echo SSH Configuration Working Remotely Working with git Example vim and tmux configs
Week 3: February 2 – 8
Pointers Lecture 6 Recording Arrays Lecture 7 Recording Strings, I/O Lecture 8 Recording	Lab 1 Due ⋅ February 3 Reading: K&R 1.6, 1.8, 1.9 getopt: getopt.c Usage Statement Guide Argument Passing Examples: arg-passing.c arg_example1.c arg_example2.c print_addresses.c Arrays: array_break.c I/O: flush.c flush.py
Week 4: February 9 – 15
Finishing Stream I/O, Quiz Study Guide Recording Quiz, Lab Work File I/O Lecture 9 Recording	Lab 2 Due ⋅ February 10 Quiz 1 ⋅ February 12 Reading: K&R Ch 6, 7.5 Unix Command: cat man page
Week 5: February 16 – 22
Structs Lecture 10 Recording Dynamic Memory Allocation Lecture 11 Recording	Lab 3 Due ⋅ February 17 Unix Command: grep man page structs.c
Week 6: February 23 – March 1
Struct, Malloc Practice Recording /proc, openat Recording Quiz Study Guide, P1 UI Recording
Week 7: March 2 – 8
CPU Usage, String Tokenization Lecture 12 Recording Quiz 2, Interactive Grading Debugging, Q&A Recording	Lab 4 Due ⋅ March 3 Lab 5 Due ⋅ March 5 Project 1 Due ⋅ March 7 Quiz 2 ⋅ March 5 next_token.c Debugging Quick GDB Guide Debugging with GDB 15 min GDB Video GDB Dashboard Static Analysis `-fanalyzer` `-fsanitize=address` `-fsanitize=leak` `-fsanitize=undefined`
Week 8: March 9 – 15
Spring Break!
Week 9: March 16 – 22
Linked Lists, malloc Lecture 13 Recording Malloception, System Calls Lecture 14 Recording 1 Recording 2	readdir.c fork.c
Week 10: March 23 – 29
Processes, Quiz 3 Study Guide Recording Building a Shell Recording	Quiz 3 ⋅ March 26
Week 11: March 30 – April 5
Inter-Process Communication Lecture 15 Recording 1 Recording 2 Recording 3	AT&T Archives: UNIX (Video) signal.c unkillable.c io-redir.c pipe.c
Week 12: April 6 – 12
Wrapping up IPC Shell Project, Study Guide Recording Containers Lecture 16 Recording	Lab 6 Due ⋅ April 7 Lab 7 Due ⋅ April 9
Week 13: April 13 – 19
Container Lab Quiz Easter Break	Lab 8 Due ⋅ April 14 Quiz 4 ⋅ April 16
Week 14: April 20 – 26
Threads Lecture 17 Recording Critical Sections, Mutexes Lecture 18 Recording Condition Variables Lecture 19 Recording	Project 2 Due ⋅ April 21 Rust Rustlings Rust Book Threads Reading: IPP: pthreads thread_hello.c sleep-sort.c pi-c.c pi-pthread.c pi-py.py Concurrency busywait.c barrier.c many_mutexes.c prod_con.c thread-limit.c deadlock.c livelock.c starvation.c Cigarette Smoker’s Problem Dining Philosophers Problem
Week 15: April 27 – May 3
Cryptocurrency Lecture 20 Recording Bit Manipulation Lecture 21 Recording Network Programming with Sockets	Lab 9 Due ⋅ April 28 Coin Server Repo
Week 16: May 4 – 10
Semester Wrap-up	Lab 10 Due ⋅ May 5 Quiz 5 ⋅ May 7
Week 17: May 11 – 17
Final Quiz: Monday, May 12 ⋅ 10:00am – 12:00pm