CS 476/576- Systems Programming

INSTRUCTOR:

  Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Ph.D.
  e-mail: wahab@cs.odu.edu
  offfice phone: (757) 683-4512
  office hours: M 3-5 pm & T 3-5 pm
  office location: 249-4 Education Building

TEXTBOOKS

• UNIX: The Textbook , S. M. Sarwar, R. Koretsky and S. A. Sarwar, Addison Wesley, 2001.
• UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4, David A. Curry, O'Reilly & Associates, 1996.
• Thinking In Java , 2nd edition, Bruce Eckel, Prentice Hall, 2000.

TOPICS:

• UNIX/Shell Programming.                  (2 weeks):    Intro to Unix, Bourne and C Shell.
• X Windows/Motif programming        (2 weeks):   Xlib and Motif.
• UNIX Systems Programming              (2 weeks):   I/O, Processes, Threads, IPC and Signals.
• Network Programming                        (2 weeks):   UDP/TCP Sockets and Multicasting.
• Java Systems Programmimg                (6 weeks):   SWING, Multithreading and Networking.

GRADING

• Assignments:                                40 %
• First Exam: October 22             30 %
• Second Exam: December 10      30 %

PREVIOUS YEARS

• Fall 2001
• Fall 2000 (not offered)
• Fall 1999
• Fall 1998
• Fall 1997
• Fall 1996
• Older years (not online)