Course Schedule

Course Overview

• Lecture 1 (Jan 25)
• Video
  • Username: cs521
  • password: see Canvas

Beginning C & VM Setup

• Lecture 2 (Jan 27)
• Video

• Lab 0 Due ⋅ January 27

• Reading: K&R Ch 1.1 – 1.4

• 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

Input and Output (Feb 1)

• Video

Finishing Setting up VMs

• Lab 1 Due ⋅ January 31

• Lab 2 Due ⋅ February 4

• Reading: K&R Ch 1.5 – 1.9
• Unix Command: cat
  • man page
• Working Remotely
  • Remote VSCode
  • Remote Sublime
  • git Commands
• cmdline_args.c
• convert.c
• I/O Buffering:
  • flush.c
  • flush.py

Functions, Arguments, and Pointers (Feb 8)

• Video

Arrays and Strings (Feb 10)

• Video

• Reading: K&R Ch 5, Ch 7
• Argument Passing Examples:
  • arg-passing.c
  • arg_example1.c
  • arg_example2.c
  • print_addresses.c
• TL;DR Pages
• Creating a Shell Alias
• Beej’s Debugging Guide
• Example vim & tmux configs
• Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit

Finishing Strings

• Video

Structs (Feb 17)

• Video

• Lab 3 Due ⋅ February 16

• Quiz 1 ⋅ February 15

• Reading: K&R Ch 6
• Unix Command: grep
  • man page
• structs.c

String Tokenization (February 22)

• Video

Dynamic Memory (February 24)

• (See previous slides on structs!)
• Video

• Lab 4 Due ⋅ February 25

• next_token.c
• readdir.c

Going over Lab 4

• Video

Linked Lists (Mar 3)

• Video

• Debugging with GDB

Building an Elastic Array (Mar 8)

• Video

Project 1 Work Day (Mar 10)

• Quiz 2 ⋅ March 10

System Calls

• Video

• Sorting, Allocation, Project 2

• Video

• Lab 5 Due ⋅ March 22

• Project 1 Due ⋅ March 22

• Reading: OSTEP Ch 6 & 7
• fork.c

Inter-Process Communication

• Video

Building a Shell

• Video

• AT&T Archives: UNIX (Video)
• signal.c
• unkillable.c
• io-redir.c
• pipe.c

Project 2 Work Day

Starting Project 3 (Lab 6)

• Quiz 3 ⋅ April 7

• Project 2 Due ⋅ April 5

Introduction to pthreads

• Lecture 11
• Video

Measuring Performance

• Lecture 12
• Video

• Lab 6 Due ⋅ April 15

• Reading: IPP: pthreads
• thread_hello.c
• sleep-sort.c
• pi-c.c
• pi-pthread.c
• pi-py.py

Critical Sections, Mutexes

• Lecture 13
• Video

Condition Variables, Concurrency Bugs

• Lecture 14
• Video

• Reading: OSTEP: Condition Variables

• many_mutexes.c

• prod_con.c

• barrier.c

• busywait.c

• thread-limit.c

• deadlock.c

• livelock.c

• starvation.c

• Cigarette Smoker’s Problem

• Dining Philosophers Problem

Cupcakes

• Video

Finishing P3

• Quiz 4 ⋅ April 26

• Project 3 Due ⋅ April 28

Getting Go-ing: Arrays, Slices, and Runes

• Lecture 17
• Video

Maps & Concurrency

• Lecture 18
• Video

• Go Official Documentation
• Learn Go With Tests
• Go builtins
• Go by Example
• Disk Analyzer (golang version)
• Go Maps
• Standard Project Layout

Bit Manipulation, P3

• Lecture 19
• Video

• Lab 7 Due ⋅ May 13

• chan.go
• SHA-1 Hashes in Go
• Cgo:
  • Go Blog Article
  • cgo.go
  • test.c