• Office: D. L. Pratt Building PT290F
• E-mail: maclean@cdf.utoronto.ca (you must include "CSC209" in the subject line)
• Phone: 978-6277
• Office hours: Wed 2 – 3 pm, or by appointment

• lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:10pm–1:00pm, SS2118 (L0101)
  Thursdays 7:10–9:00pm, RW110
• tutorials: Fridays 12:10pm–1:00pm (L0101, see below)
  Thursdays 6:10–7:00pm (L0501, see below)

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).

Prerequisite: CSC148H, CSC270H

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:

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!) before the assignment/test is due. 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, not your instructor.

Course notices:

• Announcements will also be made on-line in the course Web page
  ( http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~maclean/csc209/Spring00/ ) and course newsgroup ( ut.cdf.csc209h … send e-mail to ut.cdf.csc209h@cdf.toronto.edu).
• 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: Monday, Jan 3^rd/Thursday Jan 6^th
• First Tutorial: Friday Jan 7^th/Thursday Jan 13^th
• Last Day to Add: Friday Jan 14^th
• Last Day to Drop: Friday Mar 3^rd
• Last Lecture: Wednesday Apr 5^th/Thursday, Apr 6^th (no term work accepted past Apr 7^th)
• Exam Period: Apr 17^th — May 5^th