Course Schedule

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

Topic	Deadlines & Materials
Week 1: Jan 25 - 29
Course Overview Lecture 1 (1/26) Video Beginning C & VM Setup Lecture 2 (1/28) Video	Reading: K&R Ch 1.1 – 1.4 Lab 0 Due ⋅ Thurs 1/28 521 Class IDs Virtual Machines: VM Setup Guide VM Command Manual Working with your VM: Passwordless ssh Setup Working Remotely Example code: hello.c hello-multi.c
Week 2: Feb 1 - 5
Functions, Arguments, and Pointers Lecture 3 (2/2) Video Arrays and Strings Lecture 4 (2/4) Video	Reading: K&R Ch 1.5 – 1.9 Lab 1 Due ⋅ Tues 2/2 Argument Passing Examples: arg-passing.c arg_example1.c arg_example2.c print_addresses.c func.c (from class) git Commands XOR Swap (thanks, Alex ;-))
Week 3: Feb 8 - 12
Arrays and Strings (Continued) Lecture 4 (2/9) Video I/O and Command Line Arguments Lecture 5 (2/11) Video	Reading: K&R Ch 5, Ch 7 Lab 2 Due ⋅ Mon 2/8 Exam 1: February 9 Example vim & tmux configs Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit cmdline_args.c convert.c I/O Buffering: flush.c flush.py
Week 4: Feb 15 - 19
Structs and Dynamic Memory Lecture 6 (2/16) Video 1 Video 2	Reading: K&R Ch 6 Lab 3 Due ⋅ Thurs 2/18 structs.c
Week 5: Feb 22 - 26
String Tokenization Lecture 7 (2/23) Video Elastic Arrays (allocating, adding, sorting)	next_token.c readdir.c getopt: getopt.c Usage Statement Guide
Week 6: Mar 1 - 5
Data Structures in C System Calls	Exam 2: March 2
Week 7: Mar 8 - 12
Processes fork() and exec()
Week 8: Mar 15 - 19
Spring Break!
Week 9: Mar 22 - 26
Introduction to pthreads Critical Sections Condition Variables
Week 10: Mar 29 - Apr 2
Concurrency Bugs, Thread Safety	Exam 3: March 30
Week 11: Apr 5 - 9
Networking
Week 12: Apr 12 - 16
Beginning Golang
Week 13: Apr 19 - 23
Arrays, Slices, and Maps	Exam 4: April 20
Week 14: Apr 26 - 30
Concurrency in Golang
Week 15: May 3 - 7
Microservices
Week 16: May 10 - 14
Distributed Systems	Exam 5: May 11