CS 3240 - System Programming Concepts

Topics include: program development tools, basic testing, timing, profiling and benchmarking, characteristics of physical devices, memory management, device drivers, pseudo-devices, file structures, file I/O (both buffered and unbuffered), processes, shells, inter-process communications, signals, exceptions, pipes, sockets, shared memory and file and record locking. All topics are viewed from a UNIX system programming perspective.

Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: CS 1120 and (CS 2230 or ECE 2510), with a grade of “C” in all prerequisites.

Credits: 3 hours