General Information
My Information
Name: | Jonathan Misurda |
Office: | 6213 Sennott Square |
Phone: | (412) 624-8835 |
Email: | jmisurda@cs.pitt.edu |
Office Hours: | Mon: 1:00–3:00 Tue, Thu: 3:00–5:00 |
Syllabus
You can find a copy of the syllabus here.
Announcements
Subscribe to feed(12/14/10) — All of the slides are up for the final exam. Try your hand at a few practice questions. This is not a complete test, but it is some questions taken from the first time I taught 449. That test was cumulative, so I've extracted the relevant questions into the linked document. Note that this is only practice, questions may be significantly different on the real final which will be longer of course.
(12/01/10) — Project 5 is assigned, due Monday, December 13, 2010, by midnight. The assignment sheet and port assignments can be found below.
(11/15/10) — Project 4 is assigned, due Tuesday, November 30 by midnight. The assignment sheet and necessary files are below.
(11/05/10) — The test driver for your project is up. You can copy it to your current directory by:
cp /u/SysLab/shared/mallocdrv.c .
Make sure to include the dot at the end.
(11/01/10) — All of the slides are up for the second midterm. Try your hand at a few practice questions. When you're done, take a look at the answer key and see how you did. If you have questions, ask me or the TAs.
(10/27/10) — Project 3 is assigned, due Tuesday, November 9 by midnight. The assignment sheet is below.
(10/19/10) — Here's a sample minimal write-up for project 2.
(10/12/10) — Project 2 is assigned, due Sunday, October 24 by midnight. The assignment sheet is below.
(09/27/10) — A sample midterm exam can be found here. After you try it, you can find the answers here. Questions 4, 8, and 9 pertain to topics we haven't covered, so you don't need to worry about them.
(09/24/10) — Lindsey's office has moved to 5404 Sennott Square.
(09/22/10) — I am providing two OGG files (a form of music file) called with.ogg (that has a tag at the end of the file) and none.ogg (that has no tag) to test your project on. You can copy them to your directory by:
cp ~jrmst106/public/cs449/*.ogg .
The dot at the end is critical, as it represents the current directory name. Note that the files have been shrunk to fit better in your AFS quota and likely won't play anymore. This won't affect your project.
Please don't include these files in your submission.
(09/20/10) — Thot is back up. Please report when you're having issues but make sure to check the website first for announcements.
(09/19/10) —
thot is down due to a known issue. It will be back up tomorrow at the latest. In the meantime, you can use theunixs.cis.pitt.edu
machine to do your work on. I will announce here when thot is back in service(09/13/10) — Project 1 is assigned, due Sunday, September 26 by midnight. The assignment sheet is below.
(09/12/10) — Lindsey's office hours will be: 11am–2pm on Wednesday and 4pm–7pm on Friday. Mine will be Monday 1:00–3:00 and Tuesday, Thursday 3:00–5:00
(08/30/10) — Welcome to CS 449 Fall Term (2111)
Text, Slides, and Extra Materials
Topic | Slides (PDF) | Links |
Binary Formats and Linking | Slides | 20 part blog entry on linking (PDF) |
x86 Assembly | Slides | AT&T Syntax |
Function Calls and Calling Convention | Slides 1 Slides 2 |
CS 447 Appendix A |
Processes and Memory Management | Slides | Linux Address Space Layout |
Conditional Compilation Makefiles and Multi-file Development |
Slides | Chapter 18 in the C Textbook Chapter 10 in the C Textbook |
Midterm 2
Topic | Slides (PDF) | Links |
System Calls & Signals | Slides (PDF) | Signals |
Device Drivers under Linux | Slides (PDF) | LLD Chapter 1 (PDF) LLD Chapter 2 (PDF) |
Threads | Slides (PDF) | |
pthreads | Slides (PDF) | More on pthreads ALP chapter on pthreads (PDF) |
Synchronization | Slides (PDF) | Handout (PDF) |
Networks and Berkeley Sockets | Slides (PDF) | Sockets |
Buffers, Errors and Robust Programming | Buffering Slides (PDF) Errors Slides (PDF) |
Ten Commandments for C Programmers |
Final Exam (review slides PDF)
Projects
- Project 5: Multi-Threaded Web Server
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Project 4:
/dev/cards
- QEMU (For everyone, includes disk and Windows executable)
- For Mac users: Q.app. If that is down, try this mirror
- Project 3: A custom malloc()
- Project 2: What's the password?
- Project 1: The Game of RPS & ID3 Tag Editor
Links
Reference- C Language
- x86 Instruction Set
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Download putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
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Unix Command Reference (from CSSD): Here