Course Projects

• Project 0: C programming warm-up
  • Assigned: Wednesday September 30
  • Due: Friday October 9 at 11:59 p.m. (electronic submission)
  • Skeleton code [tar.gz, zip]
  • Turn-in instructions
  • (Write-up updated 10/06/09)

• Project 1: The Shell and System Calls
  • Assigned: Friday October 9 (available Wednesday October 7)
  • Due: Monday October 19 at 11:59 p.m. (electronic submission)
  • Turnin instructions

• Project 2: User-Level Threads
  • Assigned: Wednesday October 21 (available Monday October 19)
  • Due: Parts 1, 2 and 3: Monday November 2 at 11:59 p.m. (electronic submission)
  • Due: Parts 4, 5 and 6: Wednesday November 18 at 11:59 p.m. (electronic submission, including report)
  • Turnin instructions
  
  
• Project 3: File Systems
  • Assigned: Wednesday November 18 (available Monday November 16)
  • Due: Friday December 11 at 11:59 p.m. (electronic submission, turn in report electronically too)

• Peer Evaluation
  • In order to receive credit for the final project, you must send a Peer Evaluation email to Slava.
  • Due: Monday December 14 at 11:59 p.m.

Project Resources

• Some Linux resources
• UW ACM tutorials for UNIX, C, Emacs, etc.
• A very basic tutorial on gcc and gdb (ppt, pdf)
• C tutorial plus some advanced C features (ppt, pdf)
• A bigger GDB tutorial
• How to debug kernel code (from Linux Device Drivers book)
• Emacs reference
• Refreshing your C skills:
  • common C pitfalls for Java programmers
  • http://www.strath.ac.uk/IT/Docs/Ccourse/
  • http://www.howstuffworks.com/c.htm
  • The C Programming Language, Kernighan & Ritchie
• cse451-tailored CVS tutorial