CS 476/576- Systems Programming

Fall 2004 -Tuesday 7:10-9:50 Hughes Hall Rm 1117

INSTRUCTOR:

Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Ph.D.
e-mail: wahab@cs.odu.edu
offfice phone: (757) 683-4512
office hours: T 2-4 pm & W 2-4 pm
office location: 3315 Engineering & Computational Sciences Bldg

TEXTBOOKS

Your UNIX: The Ultimate Guide, S. Das, McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Thinking In Java , 3rd Edition, Bruce Eckel, Prentice Hall, 2002.

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.

Lectures

GRADING

Graduate students: (CS 576) work will be expected to be done at a higher quality and will be graded against the graduate system of grading(Catalog, p48). In addition to the assignments the undergraduate students are required to complete, the graduate students will have to do a course project which 10% of the overall grade.

CS 476 CS 576

Assignments 40 % 30 %
Midterm Exam: Tuesday October 19 30 % 30 %
Final Exam: Tuesday December 14 30 % 30 %
Course Project: not required 10 %

CS 476/576- Systems Programming

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