This course will introduce programming and essential concepts of operating systems, compilers, concurrency, and performance analysis, focused around several cross-cutting examples, such as memory management, error handling and threaded programming.

Topics covered include:

• C programming
• Dynamic Memory Allocation
• System Stack: Interrupts, Exceptions & Signals
• POSIX Abstractions
• Concurrent Programming: Threads, Semaphores, Shared resources
• Memory Hierarchy: Caches and Virtual Memory

Programming Assignments cover the following topics:

• Virtual Machine course environment, basic git usage, and assignment submission
• Command-line tools and redirection
• Introduction to Makefiles
• Basic C programming, with an emphasis on pointers (argv/argc, File I/O, malloc/free, structs)
• C Debugging Tools: gdb, valigrind, preprocessor directives
• Dynamic Memory allocation
• Unit testing concepts and usage (Criterion)
• POSIX functions
• Processes vs Threads
• Semaphores, race conditions, deadlock

Past Projects include:

• String Ciphers
• MIPS disassembler
• Dynamic Memory Allocator - Explicit allocator, Segregated Free List
• Bash-like Shell
• Client/Server Chat
• Concurrent Data Structures: hashmap, queue, arraylist w/ iterator
• Thread-based “Map-Reduce” data processing