System Programming: Course Content

White Board
Miracles, UNIX, and You (Zoom 08/19/25)
- The Miracle of Birth
- The Miracle of Booting
- UNIX Views
The Path to Enlightnement ... Starting to become a UNIX Guru
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (not relevant?)
- The Rise of UNIX (relevant) (Zoom 08/19/25)
- Start Chanting (Zoom 08/19/25) (Zoom 08/21/25) (Zoom 08/26/25)
- Explore the Ashram (Zoom 08/26/25) (Zoom 08/28/25)
- Climb the Mountain of Files (Zoom 08/28/25) (Zoom 09/02/25)
- Be the Master of your Domain (Zoom 09/02/25) (Zoom 09/04/25)
The C Language Basics
C Programming Tools
- C Libraries (Zoom 09/23/25)
- The C Compiler (Zoom 09/25/25)
- The C Preprocessor (Zoom 09/25/25) (Zoom 09/30/25)
- Build control (with make) (Zoom 09/30/25) (Zoom 10/02/25)
- Revision control (with Git and GitHub) (Zoom 10/02/25)
- gprof and GDB and valgrind
C Not-So-Basics
C Programming for UNIX
Interfaces to the Internet
- Guru to Guru (Accessing the internet)
- UNIX internet programming
- CGI
Scripting
- Shell scripting
- Perl