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Term: Fall 2023
Instructor: Prof. Wei Wei
Course Description: Introduction to system-level programming with an emphasis on C programming, process management, and small scale concurrency with multi-threaded programming. Special attention will be devoted to proficiency with memory management and debugging facilities both in a sequential and parallel setting.
- A Book on C: Programming in C (4th Edition) by Al Kelley, Ira Pohl
- Programming with POSIX Threads by David R. Butenhof
- The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie (Optional)
- The Developer’s Guide to Debugging (2nd Edition) by Thorsten Grötker et al. (Optional)
- Course Overview; Intro to C (ABC Ch2, K&R Ch1)
- Basic data types (ABC Ch2 & Ch3, K&R Ch2)
- Flow of control and functions (ABC Ch4 & Ch5, K&R Ch3 and Ch4)
- Arrays and dynamic memory (ABC Ch6, K&R Ch5)
- Pointers and structures (ABC Ch9, K&R Ch6)
- I/O and library functions (ABC Ch11, K&R Ch7)
- Processes (ABC Ch12)
- Pipes (ABC Ch12). Intro to threads
- Thread management. Thread synchronization: mutex and condition variables
- Thread synchronization: read-write locks and barriers
- Threads misc. topics: local storage, cancellation, real-time scheduling, false sharing
- Intro to Sockets (Beej’s guide)
- Client-server communication using sockets (Beej’s guide)
- Signal (ABC Ch12) and Misc. Topics