Course Projects

• Project 0: C programming warm-up
  • Assigned: Wednesday, September 28
  • Due: Friday October 7 at 11:59 pm (electronic submission)
  • Skeleton code

• Project 1: The Shell and System Calls
  • Assigned: Monday, October 10
  • Due: Friday, October 21 Monday, October 24 11:59 PM
  • Groups of up to two

• Project 2: Concurrency
  • Assigned: Monday, October 24
  • Due: Part A: Friday, November 4, 11:59 pm
  • Due: Part B: Tuesday, November 22, 11:59 pm

• Project 3: Undelete
  • Assigned: Monday, November 28
  • Due: Wednesday, December 7, 11:59 pm

Project Resources

• The CSE home Linux virtual machine.
• 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