CSC 209H: Software Tools and Systems Programming
Summer 2006

Course Information

Instructor: Richard Krueger

email: (or krueger@cdf)

Lectures: Thursdays, 6-8pm in SF 1101 (time changed)

Tutorials: Thursdays, 8-9pm (no tutorial first week) (time changed)

Tutors: Andres Lagar Cavilla, Lionel Litty, Scott Leishman

Office hours: by appointment, or

Tuesdays 5-7pm in BA 3234 (CS help centre)

Wednesdays 4-5pm in BA 3234 (CS help centre)

Newsgroup: ut.cdf.csc209h

Previous offerings of this course: (chooser)

Course description

Software techniques in a Unix-style environment, using scripting languages and a machine-oriented programming language (typically C). What goes on in the operating system when programs are executed. Core topics: creating and using software tools, pipes and filters, file processing, shell programming, processes, system calls, signals, basic network programming.
Exclusion: CSC372H1, CSC408H1, CSC369H1, 468H1, CSC469H1.
Prerequisite: CSC207H1/270H1, CSC258H1/enrolment in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) subject POSt; CGPA 2.5/enrolment in a CSC subject POSt.

You must read the announcements regularly, at least twice a week.

Course Links

• Course information sheet in postscript or PDF
• Announcements (updated periodically, please read regularly)
• Lecture notes and assigned readings
• Online tutorials
• Assignments
• Forms (grace days, remarks)
• Marks
• Exam information
• Notes on alternate 209 textbooks, from a past instructor