CS222: Systems Programming -- Spring 2008

William Claycomb
Office... Cramer 210A
Office hours... Tue/Thu 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Email... billc@cs.nmt.edu, Phone... 505-363-5804

Suryateja Vemulapallit (Teja)
Office... Cramer 222
Office hours... Mon 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Wed 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Email... tejav@nmt.edu, Phone... 816-377-9495

Tue/Thu 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM (Cramer 239)

This course provides an introductory overview of operating systems and system programming, mainly focusing on system-level programming based on OS services and other APIs. Topics include system calls, file I/O, files and directories, memory management, process control, inter-process communication (IPC), socket-based network programming, remote procedure call (RPC) programming, and basic security mechanisms. Course works include homework assignments, two exams, and a final project. Prerequisite: CS221.

On completion of this course, students will

• be able to understand fundamentals of operating system concepts and system calls,
• be able to have practical experience of applying those fundamental concepts into program development, and
• have the ability to develop programs based on Windows/POSIX-compliant system call APIs.

Required

• Windows System Programming (ISBN 0321256190), 3/e, by Johnson M. Hart

Recommended

• Operating Systems (ISBN 0131246968), 3/e, by H. M. Dietel et al.
• Linux Programming by Examples: The Fundamentals (ISBN 0131429647), 1/e, by Arnold Robbins
• Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (ISBN 0201433079), 2/e, by W. Richard Stevens

Development Tools

• VMWare Player (free)
• VMWare Server (free)
• Microsoft Visual C++ Express (free)
• Service Install Utility

Development Resources

• Helpful hints: Configuring Debugging for your Visual C++ Express application

CS222 VMWare Image

• Please see instructor

Online books, Lecture notes, technical reports, Other Links

• The C Book (online version)
• Programming in C: Unix System Calls and Subroutines using C
• C Standard Library Reference
• Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Homepage
• Microsoft News Group
• Windows Kernel Mode Fundamentals
• The Linux Development Platform
• The Art of Unix Programming
• Unix System Programming
• Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO by David A. Wheeler

• Midterm and Final exams (30%)
• Quizzes (10%)
• Homework and Programming Assignments (30%)
• Final project (30%)

• A: 93 ~ 100, A-: 90 ~ 92
• B+ : 87 ~ 89, B: 83 ~ 86, B-: 80 ~ 82
• C+ : 77 ~ 79, C: 73 ~ 76, C-: 70 ~ 72
• D+ : 67 ~ 69, D: 60 ~ 66
• F: 59 and less

Students' responsibility is to have the full knowledge of New Mexico Tech's Academic Honesty Policy (click here). It strongly forbids Academic Dishonesty defined as follows: "cheating: the use of unauthorized material during a test, or the act of copying from another student; plagiarism: the unauthorized use or use without proper citation of either someone's published work, unpublished material in someone else's computer files or material derived from the Internet; theft: any form of unauthorized procurement of academic documents, e.g., exams, student reports; falsification: any form of illegal alteration of academic documents for any purpose including improper alteration of experimental data obtained in the laboratory; impersonation: the act of permitting another person to substitute for oneself at an examination; obstruction: interference with or sabotage of the work of any other person through vandalism or theft; assistance: the act of helping another to commit fraud in any of the above-mentioned ways." I will not tolerate any type of incidents and works involving academic dishonesty, and I will take action appropriate to their severity.