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CS456 - Systems Programming |
Course Description
The catalog description for this course is:
"An introduction to both program translation and operating systems. There will be a survey of topics such as: top-down and bottom-up parsing, scanning, code generation, symbol table management, linkers and loaders, batch processing systems, interacting processes, multiprogramming systems, and memory management."
Learning Outcomes
- Solid understanding of the Unix/Linux API.
- Basic understanding of programming language translation.
Recommended text
Most information required for the course is available on-line. Sources that can be used for the course include the following.
- The Unix on-line manual pages (man command)
- The GNU info pages (info command)
- "Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library, Edition 2", Robert Love (OâReilly)
- "Flex & Bison", by John Levine (OâReilly)
- Wikipedia.org
- Tutorials Point: