CS 325 Course Materials
Spring 2009

General

• Syllabus: PDF, HTML.
• Final exam: Thursday, May 14 at 12:00 pm.
• Spring 1998 materials.
• C development environment for Windows. See Eclipse, CDT, and MinGW.
• Shortcut for X Server on merlin (save onto your desktop).
• Debugging Programs with gdb PDF, HTML.
• Subversion book.

Reading Assignments

• Week 1: Jan. 30: Chapter 1.
• Week 2: Still in Chapter 1.
• Week 3: Feb. 9: 2.1--2.7. Feb. 11: 2.8--2.12. Feb. 13: No additional reading.
• Week 4: Feb. 16: No additional reading. Feb. 18: Chapter 3. Feb. 20: Lab day.
• Week 5: Feb. 25: Chapter 4.
• Week 6: Mar. 4: Chapter 4. Mar. 6: Chapter 5.
• Week 7 Mar. 11: 6.1--6.6.
• Week 8 Mar. 25: 6.7--6.10
• Week 9 Mar. 30: 8.1--8.5.
• Week 10 Apr. 8: 9.1--9.4.
• Week 13 Apr. 29: 9.5--9.10.
• Week 14 May 4: Chapter 10.

Assignments/Projects

• Project 0, 50 points: PDF, HTML. Due Feb. 9. Support files: queue.c, queue.h, test.c.
• Assignment 1, 50 points, due Feb. 25. PDF, HTML.
• Project 1, 75 points: PDF, HTML. Due Mar. 4.
• Assignment 2, 50 points, due Mar. 13: Problem 4.17 using two "worker" threads, as discussed in class. Pthreads example: helloThreaded.c.
• Assignment 3, 50 points, due Apr. 1. PDF, HTML.
• Project 2, 75 points PDF, HTML. Due April 27. fifodev.h, testFifo.c.
• Assignment 4, 50 points, due May 1 at noon. PDF, HTML.

Labs

• "Recipe" for Building a Kernel PDF, HTML.
• Adding a System Call to the Kernel PDF, HTML.
• Linux Kernel Modules fortuneModule.c, Makefile

Class Outlines

• Week 1: Jan. 28 PDF, HTML. Jan. 30: Pointers and memory allocation in C.
• Week 2: Feb. 2: Project 0 discussion. Feb. 4 PDF. Feb. 6 PDF.
• Week 3: Feb. 9 PDF. Feb. 11: Continuation of Feb. 9. Feb. 13: Lab.
• Week 4: Feb. 16 PDF. Feb. 18 PDF. Feb. 20: Lab.
• Week 5: Feb. 23: Class canceled. Feb. 25: Discuss of Linux syscall project, PDF. Feb. 27: Lab.
• Week 6: Mar. 2: Class canceled. Mar. 4 PDF, continued. Mar. 6: Discuss threads assignment.
• Week 7: Mar. 9, 11 PDF. Mar. 11 PDF.
• Week 8: Mar. 23 PDF. Mar. 25 PDF. Mar. 27: Lab.
• Week 9: Mar. 30 PDF. Apr. 1: Continuation of Mar. 30 Apr. 3: Lab.
• Week 10: Apr. 6: Exam. Apr. 8 PDF. Apr. 10: Loadable kernel modules.
• Week 11: Apr. 13: Loadable kernel modules. Apr. 15: Loadable kernel modules project. Apr. 17: Lab.
• Week 12: Apr. 20 PDF. Apr. 22 PDF. Apr. 24: Project day in lab.
• Week 13: Apr. 27 PDF. Apr. 29 PDF. May 1: GIG.
• Week 14: May 4 PDF.

C Programming Resources

• C for Java Programmers (PDF).
• More C for Java Programmers (PDF).
• C and C++ for Java Programmers (PDF) --- skip the C++ parts.
• Best Practices for Programming in C. This is excellent advice --- ignore it at your peril.
• C Coding Style Notes. Additional thoughts on programming style.
• A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C; PDF version.
• C Programming. Pretty thorough --- almost equivalent to a book on C.
• C Language Reference Manual; PDF version.
• An Introduction to C Programming (Ed Shmookler suggested this site).
• The GNU C Library; PDF version.
• The C Library Reference Guide (also has summary information for C syntax).

Pthreads Resources

• POSIX Threads Programming.
• Pthread Library Reference.
• POSIX Threads Tutorial.