CS 2240 - 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.

Notes: Enrollment is restricted to undergraduates and those graduate students admitted under the PCS (Permission to take Computer Science) classification. Enrollments in all 5000-level computer science classes will be restricted to undergraduates and graduate students in the Computer Science master’s program (CMP). Students in other graduate programs who need one of these courses either for subject matter or a research tool can gain admission by permission from the department.

Credits: 3 hours