cpe 357---Systems Programming---Winter 2009

Sections 01 and 03

Dr. Phillip Nico

Welcome to the cpe 357 home page for Dr. Nico's sections. This page will serve as a repository for information and materials related to the course.

Administrative Information

General Information

• Announcements---Check here for the latest info.
• FAQ---Everything you always wanted to know that someone else has asked.
• Instructions for Homework Submission
• Coding standards for submitted work
• Office Hours

Supplemental Course Information

• Code examples from class.
• My lecture notes.

Assignments and Solutions

In case of any discrepancies in the versions of assignments made below, the postscript file will be considered definitive.

• Programming Assignments:
  • Program 1 Information (postscript) (PDF)
  • Program 2 Information (postscript) (PDF)
  • Program 3 Information (postscript) (PDF)
  • Program 4 Information (postscript) (PDF)
  • Program 5 Information (postscript) (PDF)
  • Program 6 Information (postscript) (PDF)
  
  
• Program Solutions
  • Program 1 Solutions (postscript) (PDF)
  • Program 2 Solutions (postscript) (PDF)
  • Program 3 Solutions (postscript) (PDF)

Laboratory Exercises

• Exercises:
  • Lab 1: (postscript) (PDF)
  • Lab 2: (postscript) (PDF)
  • Lab 3: (postscript) (PDF)
  • Lab 4: (postscript) (PDF)
  • Lab 5: (postscript) (PDF)
  • Lab 6: (postscript) (PDF)
    (this is a pared-down version of Asgn X that was skipped (postscript) (PDF))
  • Lab 7: (postscript) (PDF)
  
  
• Solutions:
  • Lab 1: reports varied
  • Lab 2: (postscript) (PDF)
  • Lab 3: see solutions for Asgn3.
  • Lab 4: reports varied
  • Lab 5: (postscript) (PDF)
  • Lab 6: (postscript) (PDF)
  • Lab 7: (postscript) (PDF)

Previous exams

C Quiz
Spring 2002	postscript	PDF
Fall 2003	postscript	PDF
Winter 2004	postscript	PDF
Fall 2004	postscript	PDF
Fall 2005	postscript	PDF
Winter 2008	postscript	PDF
Midterm
Spring 2002	postscript	PDF
Fall 2003	postscript	PDF
Winter 2004	postscript	PDF
Fall 2004	postscript	PDF
Fall 2005	postscript	PDF
Winter 2008	postscript	PDF

Other Course Resources

• Information on using ssh and sftp.
• Information on the emacs editor
  • First and foremost, run the emacs tutorial (run emacs, then type Ctrl-h t).
  • The GNU Emacs home page
  • You can also consult the emacs quick-reference card. (postscript)
• Information on the vi editor
  • A quick Beginners Guide to vi (text)
  • A more substantial vi Reference (text)
• Information on the gdb debugger
  • A quick introduction to gdb.
  • You can also consult the gdb quick-reference card in postscript or PDF form.
• Information on UNIX
  • An interesting paper by Dennis Ritchie on The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System
  • Another one by Ritchie and Thompson, The Unix Time-Sharing System
  • A (much) less serious biography of unix.
• Information on pointers
  • Some notes from the Stanford CS Education Library on Pointers and Memory.
  • A companion claymation short on the subject: Binky the Pointer
• Some quick notes on make.
• Since I distribute so much information as postscript, here is some Help with postscript (html).

Grades

• Grade information will be mailed out as each assignment is graded.
• You should be able to look at a current snapshot of my gradebook here.
• Along with that, some quick reflections on what grades mean:
  • First, a football analogy by Sanford Pinsker
  • Second, a description of different categories of papers by Cal Poly's Prof. Rummell. While the description refers to papers, the analogy to code is clear (other than bits about "sentence structures pleasingly varied").