Week 1

• Administrivia
• UNIX, the shell, and AFS

Week 2

• Shell scripting, an introduction
• Shell Scripting-condtionals and loops, regular expressions, Lab #1 Assigned

Week 3

• Useful commands, advanced topics in shell scripting
• Perl, Lab #2 Assigned

Week 4

• Compiliation model, "Hello world", similarity to Java
• Exam #1 -- UNIX environment, shell scripting and Perl

Week 5

• Parameters, Multitple files, Globals, Static, Extern, Weak/Strong, Lab #3 Assigned
• Memory, addresses, pointers, pass-by-reference-value, &-operator, *-operator, gdb

Week 6

• Arrays, strings, pointer arithmetic, File IO, Lab #4 assigned
• Reinforcement, Multidimensional arrays

Week 7

• Structs, typedefs; dynamic memory
• Designing a library interface, reinforcement

Week 8

• Review/Slack
• Exam #2 (Programming in C, gdb)

Week 9

• Implementing data structures, void pointer, multiple files, static, Hashing, Lab #5 assigned
• Linked lists

Week 10

• Linked lists, cont, Lab #6 Assigned
• Function-like Macros, Valgrind, Make/CVS, Lab #7 Assigned

Week 11

• Bitwise operators, Computer organization (ISA, registers, instructions, etc), Lab #8 Assigned
• SAMS ISA and assembly

Week 12

• Discuss SAMS simulator implementation
• Continue Discussion of SAMS simulator

Week 13

• gprof and program execution, Lab #9 assigned
• System calls, Process control

Week 14

• /proc, strace
• No class -- Thanksgiving

Week 15

• Exam #3 (More C, program-memory validation, SAMS assignment, process lifecycle and system calls
• Course wrap-up, Final Exam review