Disclaimer: This is the tentative plan. It will almost certainly change. I do not post this as a promise. Instead, I do it to offer you the flavor and direction of the course. Changes will be announced in class and this will occasionally be updated.

• Week 1
  • administrivia
  • Shell Scripting - HW #1 (A very simple shell script)

• Week 2
  • Regular Expressions and other tools of the trade -
  • awk and sed -- HW #2 (True magic with shell scripts)

• Week 3
  • (f)lex
  • yacc (bison) -- HW #3 (The language of the shell)

• Week 4
  • Review/Perl or spare
  • Exam #1

• Week 5
  • On-Line Exam
  • No class

• Week 6
  • The process and its environment -- HW #4 Assigned (The Shell)
  • The process and its environment, cont.

• Week 7
  • Signals, Pipes, Terminals and Process Groups
  • make, cvs

• Week 8
  • Review/spare
  • Exam #2

• Week 9
  • Revisiting process resources, and /proc
  • Using ptrace -- HW #5 (trace syscalls, show process information)

• Week 10
  • Dynamic linking
  • nm, elfdump, &c

• Week 11
  • Static and Dynamic Libraries
  • External data structures, hashtables -- HW #7 (simple data base)

• Week 12
  • Threads, concurrency control with threads
  • Exam #3

• Week 13
  • No class - Thanksgiving

• Week 14
  • Sockets, Client-server via a network -- HW #8 (A network database)
  • Network Protocols, esp. Application Level

• Week 15
  • Review/slack
  • Exam #4