Course Projects

• Project 0: C programming warm-up (txt, pdf)
  • Assigned: Wednesday September 24
  • Due: Wednesday October 1 at 11:59 p.m. (electronic submission)
  • Skeleton code [tar.gz, zip]
  • Turn-in instructions

• Project 1: The Shell and System Calls
  • Assigned: Thursday October 2
  • Due: Wednesday October 15 at 11:59 p.m. (electronic submission)
  • Turnin instructions

• Project 2: User-Level Threads
  • Assigned: Thursday October 16
  • Due: Parts 1, 2 and 3: Mon October 27 at 11:59 p.m. (electronic submission)
  • Due: Parts 4, 5 and 6: Mon November 10 at 11:59 p.m. (electronic submission, including report)
  
  
• Project 3: File Systems
  • Assigned: Thursday November 13
  • Due: Wednesday December 3 at midnight. (electronic submission, turn in report electronically too)

  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