Week 1

• Administrivia
• The shell and shell scripting

Week 2

• Shell scripting II
• Regex, grep, sed, &c, Lab #1 Assigned

Week 3

• Perl
• Perl II, Lab #2 Assigned

Week 4

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

Week 5

• No class -- Gates-Hillman Complex Dedication
• Parameters, Multitple files, Globals, Static, Extern, Weak/Strong, Lab #3 Assigned

Week 6

• Memory, addresses, pointers, pass-by-reference-value, &-operator, *-operator, gdb
• Arrays, strings, pointer arithmetic, File IO, Lab #4 assigned

Week 7

• Reinforcement, Multidimensional arrays
• Structs, typedefs; dynamic memory

Week 8

• Designing a library interface, reinforcement
• 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

• System calls, Process control
• /proc, strace, Lab #9 assigned

Week 14

• No class -- Thanksgiving
• gprof and program execution

Week 15

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