Exams:

• Midterm: Tuesday, 1 March.
• Midterm histogram
• Final: Tuesday, 10 May, 5:00-7:30 PM
• Final in PDF
• Final Histogram

Announcements

• See syllabus concerning required textbooks.
• The Notes from Spring 2004.
• See our sys admin web site for lab instructions.
• Our TA is Weina Shen email w dot shen _a_t_ umiami dot edu.
• Submitting homework
• Homeworks received
• Midterm review
• Review for Final

Class Notes

• What is unix?
• Getting Unix
• Using unix
• Pattern Matching
• Editing
• Shell scripts
• Learn C
• More C examples
• Programming Tools
  • Makefiles
  • Debuggers
  • RCS, SCCS
• File concepts, stat, dirent
• Process concepts, fork and exec
  • examples
• Sockets
  • Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• Interprocess Comuuncation
  • Signals. examples
  • Files (homework Rock Paper Scissors)
  • Shared Memory source
  • Semaphores. article

Homework

• Log into your CSC 322 account and look around.
• Homework 1
  Due: Thur, Feb 3.
• Homework 2
  Due: Thur, Feb 10.
• Homework 3
  Due: Thur, Feb 17.
• Homework 4
  Due: Tue, March 1.
• Homework 5
  Due: Tue, March 24.
• Homework 6
  Due: Tue, March 31.
• Homework 7
  Due: Tue, April 19.
• Homework 8
  Due: Fri, April 29.

References

• Unix from Bell Labs.
• The Unix time-sharing system, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson. Bell System Technical Journal 1978. PDF
• The evolution of the Unix time-sharing system, Dennis Ritchie. Bell System Technical Journal 1984. PDF
• Introduction to Unix, a web tutorial.
• The Cathedral and the Bizarre by Eric Raymond. About open source code. Open Source License Models
• Wagner's SUID paper.
• Open source resources of some kind.
• More Cathedral and Bazaar, and other writings of Eric S. Raymond
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

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