CSE 374

• Linux Pocket Guide, Barrett
• The C Programming Language, Kernighan & Ritchie

Successful course participants will:

• Gain a basic familiarity with the Linux operating system and toolchain.
• Develop the skills to automate common computing tasks such as file manipulation and string processing
• Internalize C-level programming and obtain beginning proficiency in C programming
• Learn the basics of programming tools such as debuggers, profilers, compilation managers, and version control
• Learn core software-engineering practices regarding specification and testing
• Understand the basic issues and pitfalls of shared-memory concurrency
• Learn how to acquire additional information and skills independently

Almost all of the following topics are covered each time the course is taught, although there is some variability between offerings.

1. Files, processes, and shells (6 classes)
   1. Command-line utilities
   2. File editing
   3. Shell scripting
   4. String processing; regular expressions
   5. Web basics (http, html)
   Note: For consistency, we will all use Linux and bash. The concepts are similar for other operating systems and shells. We will use UW CSE Fedora Linux as our reference system in the few situations where it matters.
   
   
2. C Programming (6-7 classes)
   1. Memory model
   2. Pointers
   3. Arrays
   4. Manual resource management
   5. The preprocessor
   6. Idioms for safe programming
      
      
3. Programming tools (6 classes)
   1. Debuggers
   2. Profilers
   3. Linkers
   4. Compilation managers
   5. Version-control systems
      
      
4. Software-engineering issues (2-3 classes)
   1. Multiperson programming
   2. Specification
   3. Testing
   4. Code-reuse patterns
      
      
5. C++ (2-3 classes)
   1. C with classes and objects
   2. Other differences from C
      
      
6. Concurrency (2-3 classes)
   1. Threads
   2. Races and deadlocks
   3. Locks and Transactions
   4. Message-passing