CSC 209F: Software Tools and Systems Programming (L0101)

CSC 209F: Software Tools and Systems Programming

Fall 1999 (L0101)

Instructor:
W. James MacLean

Office: D. L. Pratt Building 290F

E-mail: maclean@cdf.utoronto.ca (please include "CSC209" in the subject line)

Phone: 978-6277

Office hours: Tuesday 4 – 5 pm

Timetable:

lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:10pm–2:00pm, RW117

tutorials: Fridays 1:10pm–2:00pm (see below)

Tutorial	Who? (your "last" name)	Tutor	Room	E-Mail
1	A — Hua	Jamie Ho	RW117	jamie@cs
2	Hui — Pre	Kevin Hui	SS2111	at209hui@cdf
3	Pu — Z	Olga Kundzich	SS1070	kundzich@interlog.com

Tutors lab hours:

To be announced. They will likely be grouped near assignment due dates. All lab hours take place in EA107.

Course Description:

Software development techniques in the UNIX environment. Particular emphasis on what happens in the system when programs run. Core topics: software utilities (e.g. pipes, filters), shell programming, system calls, signals, file processing, introduction to concurrency (e.g. synchronization, mutual exclusion, race conditions, producer/consumer problem), processes. Additional topics may include: scripting languages, Internet programming languages, network programming (e.g. sockets).

Exclusion: After taking any 400-level CSC/ECE course, you may not take CSC209H without departmental permission in writing.

Prerequisite: CSC148H, CSC270H

Co-requisite: Proficiency in C

Texts (required):

J.N. Clarke (ed.), A Student's Guide to CDF (most recent edition)

Texts (useful reference):

W.R. Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Addison-Wesley, 1993)

B.W. Kernighan & D.M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language - second edition (Prentice Hall, 1988)

Paul S. Wang, An introduction to UNIX (PWS Publishing Co., 1997)
G. Glass, UNIX for Programmers & Users (Prentice Hall, 1993)
K. Haviland, D. Gray, B. Salama , UNIX System Programming ()
D. Butenhof, Programming with POSIX Threads (Addison-Wesley 1997)

Assignments:

	Handed Out	Due	% of Final Mark
Assignment #1	Thu, Sep 16^th	Fri, Oct 8^th	5%
Assignment #2	Thu, Oct 7th	Fri, Oct 29^th	10%
Assignment #3	Thu, Oct 27th	Fri, Nov 19^th	10%
Assignment #4	Thu, Nov 18th	Fri, Dec 10^th	15%

Exams:

	When	% of Final Mark
Midterm (in tutorial time)	Tue, October 26^th	20%
Final Exam	TBA	40%

Note: You must achieve at least 35 out of 100 on the final exam to pass the course.

Illness and other troubles:

If you are too sick to write the midterm test or to hand in an assignment on time, you must contact your instructor (not your tutor!) as soon as possible. Use the telephone if you're stuck at home! You will need a doctor's note confirming your illness.

If you are too sick for the final examination, phone your college registrar's office instead of your instructor.

Course notices:

Announcements will also be made on-line in the course Web page
( http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~maclean/csc209/Fall99/ ) and course newsgroup ( ut.cdf.csc209h ).

Assignments are due at the beginning of tutorials. Late assignments should be submitted to D.L. Pratt Bldg., room 283. Penalties for late submissions:

Time of submission:

by 5pm on due date - penalty = - 20% (of the maximum mark)

by 9am three days after due date - penalty = - 40%

after 9am three days after due date - penalty = - 100%

The late penalties are only waived for a good reason such as a documented medical or other emergency. Discuss such excuses with the instructor, not with your tutor.

The work you submit must be your own, done without participation by others. It is an academic offence to hand in anything written by someone else without acknowledgement.

Important Dates

First Lecture: Tuesday, Sep 14^th
First Tutorial: Friday Sep 17^th
Last Day to Add: Friday Sep 24^th
Last Day to Drop: Friday Nov 5^th

Last Lecture: Thursday, Dec 9^th (no term work accepted past December 9^th)

Exam Period: Dec 13^th — 21^st