Course Projects

• Project 0: C programming warm-up
  • Assigned: Wednesday September 26
  • Due: Wednesday October 3 at 11:00 a.m. (electronic submission)
  • Skeleton code
  • (If the above doesn't work, try the .zip file skeleton code)
  • Turn-in instructions

• Project 1: The Shell and System Calls
  • Assigned: Wednesday October 3
  • Due: Friday October 12 at 10:00 a.m. (electronic submission) and at the start of class (hard-copy submission)
  • Turnin instructions

• Project 2: User-Level Threads
  • Assigned: Tuesday October 16
  • Due: Parts 1, 2 and 3: Wed October 24 at 10:00 a.m. (electronic submission)
  • Due: Parts 4, 5 and 6: Fri November 2 at 10:00 a.m. (electronic submission, turn in report at start of class)
  
  
• Project 3: Virtual Memory Trace Analysis
  • Assigned: Wednesday, November 7
  • Due: Monday, November 19 at 10:00 am (electronic submission, turn in report at start of class)
  • Turn-in instructions

• Project 4: File Systems
  • Assigned: Monday November 19
  • Due: Friday December 7 at midnight. (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 both of the TAs.

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
  • http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/tutorials/c/
  • The C Programming Language, Kernighan & Ritchie
• cse451-tailored CVS tutorial