CS 476/576- Systems Programming

Fall 1997-Tue 7:10-9:50 Technology Blg Rm 345

INSTRUCTOR:

Name: Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Ph.D.
Office : 249-4 Education Building
Phone : 683-4512
Office Hrs: T 9:30-11am & W 3:30-5:30pm or contact me for an appointment.
Electronic Mail: wahab@cs.odu.edu or wahab@cs.unc.edu

PROJECT

Schedule your project demo.

TEXTBOOKS

X Window Systems Programming And Applications With Xt: OSF/Motif Edition, 2ND edition, BY Douglas A. Young, Prentice-Hall, 1994.
UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4, BY David A. Curry, O'Reilly & Associates, 1996.
Core Java, 2ND edition, BY Gary Cornell and Cay S. Horstmann, Prentice Hall, 1996.

TOPICS:

Shell Programming. (1 week)
X Windows (Xlib and Motif Widgets). (4 weeks)
Network Programming (TCP/IP, Sockets, Multicasting). (2 weeks)
Java (User Interfaces with AWT, Multithreading and Networking). (3 weeks)
UNIX Systems Programming (I/O, Processes, Threads, IPC and Signals). (3 weeks)

GRADING

Midterm: 20%
Final: 20%
Programming Assignments: 30%
Course Programming Project: 30%

PREVIOUS YEARS

Fall 1996