General Information
My Information
Name: | Jonathan Misurda |
Office: | 6203 Sennott Square |
Phone: | (412) 624-8408 |
Email: | jmisurda@cs.pitt.edu |
Office Hours: | Mon, Wed: 10:30am – noon Thu: 1:00pm – 2:30pm |
Syllabus
You can find a copy of the syllabus here.
Announcements
(07/15/15) — Project 4 is assigned, due Tuesday, July 28, 2015, by midnight. The assignment sheet and associated files can be found below.
(07/07/15) — 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.
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.
(06/30/15) — Office hours will begin at 11am on Wednesday, July 1, 2015.
(06/26/15) — Project 3 is assigned, due Sunday, July 12, 2015, by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(06/11/15) — Project 2 is assigned, due Wednesday, June 24, 2015, by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(06/07/15) — I have to cancel my 11:00am to noon office hour on Monday, June 8th, 2015.
(06/02/15) — 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.
(05/26/15) — Class will be cancelled Thursday, May 28, 2015.
(05/21/15) — Project 1 is assigned, due Sunday, June 7, 2015 by midnight. The assignment sheet can be found below.
(05/20/15) — Office hours are up on the syllabus. As always, if you cannot attend a particular time, you can schedule them by appointment.
(05/12/15) — Welcome to CS 449 Summer Term (2157)
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 | Errors Slides (PDF) | Ten Commandments for C Programmers |
Final Exam (review slides PDF)
Projects
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Project 4:
/dev/pi
- Project 3: A custom malloc()
- Project 2: What's the password?
- Project 1: Mastermind & EXIF Viewer
Links
Reference- C Language
- x86 Instruction Set
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Download PuTTY (SSH client for Windows)
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Unix Command Reference (from CSSD): Here