CS262 Fall 2011: Introduction to Low-level Programming (Sessions 2&5)

Weeks

Lecture notes

Additional materials

Additional notes/readings

Week 1

Introduction (Chapter 1) (pdf)

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• get gcc and compile the example codes
  • using cygwin on windows
  • get Xcode if you use Mac OS
  • If using Ubuntu, "sudo apt-get install gcc build-essential"
• C Traps and Pitfalls, by Andrew Koenig
• The Development of the C Language, by D. Richie

Week 2

Basic types and Operators (Chapters 1&2) (pdf)

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program assignment 1: Section 002, Section 005

Week 3

Functions (Chapter 4) (pdf)

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Quiz 1

Week 4

Pointers (Chapter 5) (pdf)

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(with PA1 solution)

memory management in c: the heap and the stack by Leo Ferres

Week 5

Address Arithmetic (Chapter 5) (pdf)

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Quiz 2

Week 6

Makefile, Debugger and Review

(with updated Lecture 04)

program assignment 2: Section 002 and Section 005

Week 7

Midterm

Week 8

Pointers and Strucuters (Chapter 6) (pdf)

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Week 9

File I/O in UNIX (Chapters 7&8) (pdf)

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Week 10

C and UNIX (final review) (pdf)

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(see PA3 below for signal handling)

Week 11

Final Exam

PA3

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• code version 1 tar.gz (nov 5)
• code updated, version 2 zip (nov 7)
  • no significant update, fix some problems with prgram termination