General Information
My Information
Name: | Jonathan Misurda |
Office: | 6203 Sennott Square |
Phone: | (412) 624-8408 |
Email: | jmisurda@cs.pitt.edu |
Office Hours: | Mon, Wed: 2:30–4:30pm Tue: 1:30–2:30pm |
Syllabus
You can find a copy of the syllabus here.
Announcements
(04/09/14) — Project 5 is assigned, due Monday, April 21, 2014 by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(03/26/14) — Project 4 is assigned, due Tuesday, April 8, 2014 by midnight. The assignment sheet and associated files can be found below.
(03/17/14) — The test driver for your project is up. You can copy it to your current directory by:
(03/03/14) — Project 3 is assigned, due Sunday, March 23, 2014 by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(02/27/14) — Here's a sample minimal write-up for project 2.
(02/17/14) — Project 2 is assigned, due Tuesday, March 4, 2014 by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(02/03/14) — A sample midterm exam can be found here. After you try it, you can find the answers here. This is from a slightly different course that I taught so some topics may have been emphasized differently.
(01/22/14) — Project 1 is assigned, due Tuesday, February 11, 2014 by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(01/13/14) — Office hours and locations have been updated in the online syllabus above.
(01/06/14) — Welcome to CS 449 Spring Term (2144)
cp /u/SysLab/shared/mallocdrv.c .
Make sure to include the dot at the end.
All of the slides are up for the second midterm. A few sample problems for the second midterm exam can be found here. After you try it, you can find the answers here.If you have questions, ask me or the TA.
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) | LDD Chapter 1 (PDF) LDD 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: A Shell
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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: Craps & EXIF Tag Viewer
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