CSC 209F: Software Tools and Systems Programming (L0101)

CSC 209S: Software Tools and Systems Programming

Spring 1999 (L0101)

Instructor:
W. James MacLean

Office: Pratt Building LP290F

E-mail: maclean@cdf.utoronto.ca (please include "CSC209" in the subject line)

Phone: 978-6277

Office hours: Mondays & Wednesdays, 11–12 am, 3–4 pm (or by appointment)

Timetable:

lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:10pm–1:00pm, MP203

tutorials: Fridays 12:10pm–1:00pm (see below)

Tutorial	Who? (your "last" name)	Tutor	Room	E-Mail
1	A – DE	Adrian Corduneanu	RW142	at209cor
2	D – LAI	Tyronne Mayadunne	MP203	at209may
3	LAL – RE	Olga Kundzich	SS1086	at209kun
4	SA – Z	Howard Zhang	SS1088	at209zha
LAB	ALL	Akil Nasser	EA107	at209nas

Tutors lab hours:

To be announced. They will likely be grouped near assignment due dates. All lab hours take place in EA107.

Course Description:

Software development techniques in the UNIX environment. Particular emphasis on what happens in the system when programs run. Core topics: software utilities (e.g. pipes, filters), shell programming, system calls, signals, file processing, introduction to concurrency (e.g. synchronization, mutual exclusion, race conditions, producer-consumer problem), processes. Additional topics may include: scripting languages, Internet programming languages, network programming (e.g. sockets).

Exclusion: After taking any 400-level CSC/ECE course, you may not take CSC209H without departmental permission in writing.

Prerequisite: CSC148H

Co-requisite: CSC270H/proficiency in C

Texts (required):

G. Glass, UNIX for Programmers & Users (Prentice Hall, 1993)

J.N. Clarke (ed.), A Student's Guide to CDF (1994 edition)

Texts (useful reference):

W.R. Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Addison-Wesley, 1993)

B.W. Kernighan & D.M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language - second edition (Prentice Hall, 1988)

Paul S. Wang, An introduction to UNIX (PWS Publishing Co., 1997)

Assignments:

	Handed Out	Due	% of Final Mark
Assignment #1	Wednesday, Jan 6^th	Friday Jan 29^th	5%
Assignment #2	Wednesday Jan 20^th	Friday Feb 12^th	10%
Assignment #3	Wednesday Feb 10^th	Friday Mar 12^th	10%
Assignment #4	Wednesday Mar 10^th	Mon Apr 5^th	15%

Exams:

	When	% of Final Mark
Midterm (in tutorial time)	Friday Feb 26^th	20%
Final Exam	TBA	40%

Note: You must achieve at least 35 out of 100 on the final exam to pass the course.

Illness and other troubles:

If you are too sick to write the midterm test or to hand in an assignment on time, you must contact your instructor (not your tutor!) as soon as possible. Use the telephone if you're stuck at home! You will need a doctor's note confirming your illness.

If you are too sick for the final examination, phone your college registrar's office instead of your instructor.

Course notices:

Announcements will also be made on-line in the course Web page
( http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~maclean/csc209/Spring99/ ) and course newsgroup ( ut.cdf.csc209h ).

Assignments are due at the beginning of tutorials. Late assignments should be submitted to room LP283. Penalties for late submissions:

Time of submission:

by 5pm on due date - penalty = - 20% (of the maximum mark)

by 9am three days after due date - penalty = - 40%

after 9am three days after due date - penalty = - 100%

The late penalties are only waived for a good reason such as a documented medical or other emergency. Discuss such excuses with the instructor, not with your tutor.

The work you submit must be your own, done without participation by others. It is an academic offence to hand in anything written by someone else without acknowledgement.

Important Dates

First Lecture: Monday, January 4^th
First Tutorial: Friday January 15^th
Last Day to Add: January 15^th
Last Day to Drop: March 5^th

Last Lecture: Wednesday, April 7^th (no term work accepted past April 9^th)

Exam Period: April 19^th – May 2^nd
Holidays: Reading week February 15^th – 19^th inclusive, Friday Apr2 (Good Friday)