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The Labs

• Lab 0


• Lab 1


• Lab 2


• Lab 3


• Lab 4


• Lab 5


• Lab 6


• Lab 7


• Lab 8


• Lab 9


• Lab 10


• Lab 11

Slides shown during the course

• Unix Utilities
• Shells
• Bourne/Bash Shell
• Arrays-Pointers-MemoryAllocation
• Structs-Typedef

The Course

• C programming (stdio, pointers, memory management, overview of the C libraries).
  Primarily C89/ANSI-C, but with a look at C95 and C99.
• Shell programming under Unix (Bourne/Bash shell, filters and pipes)
• Testing and debugging
• Practical programming skills (interfaces, version control systems, "make" mechanism, performance and optimization)
• Parts of the POSIX system call interface.

Sections and Instructors

Section A

• Instructor: Gordon Turpin (gordon [at] cse [dot] yorku [dot] ca)
• Office Hour: Tuesday 4:00 - 5:00 in LAS 3020
• Lecture: Tuesday, 18:00 - 20:00 in SLH E
• Labs: Note that lab attendance is required.
  • Lab02: Wednesday, 17:00 - 19:00 in LAS 1006

Teaching Assistant(s)

• Cyrus Minwalla: cyrusm [at] cse [dot] yorku [dot] ca
• Hui Wang: huiwang [at] cse [dot] yorku [dot] ca

Required Texts

• Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M.
  The C Programming Language, 2^nd Ed.
  Prentice Hall, 1988
  ISBN 0-13-110362-8
  Short and well written, covering C89/ANSI-C, this is the classic C book.


• Practical Programming in the Unix Environment
  Edited by W. Stürzlinger
  Pearson Custom Publishing, 2003
  ISBN 0-536-74996-5
  This is a compendium of material from two other texts.


• Brian Gough
  An Introduction to GCC
  Network Theory Ltd. 2005
  book's website
  A very short guide to gcc, the C compiler we're using.
  Note the link to an online html version at the very bottom of the book's webpage - it's not necessary to acutally purchase this book; use the online version if you like.

Additional/Recommended Texts

Course Evaluation

• 25% 2 equally weighted assignments:
  The following links will become acitve when the assignments are posted.
  
  • Assignment 1
  • Assignment 2.
    
• 10% Several (4 - 6) small unannounced labtests throught the term. These labtests will be based on previous labs. Note that lab attendance is a required part of the course.
• 30% midterm
• 35% final exam