CS 241 Fall 2007
System Programming

10-10:50am MWF

1404 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Newsgroups: class.cs241 and class.cs241.announce

Questions for TAs: cs241help@uiuc.edu

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Resources

Stallings Student Resources

· Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, Fifth Edition

· Computer Science Student Resource Site

· Sockets: Beej's guide programmer's introduction.

Student Study Guide

• How to study guide

Linux

• Introduction to Linux (from a user's perspective)
• The Linux Documentation Project (lots more documentation)

TSG and CSIL Facilities

Machine Labs: https://agora.cs.uiuc.edu/display/CSIL/Facilities
TSG Web Site: https://cs.uiuc.edu/tsg

Useful tools (already installed)

• OpenSSH (remote login and file transfer)
• Sudo (execute commands as root easily)
• GNU Screen (multiplex, detach and share terminals)

C Programming

• The GNU C Programming Tutorial
• Programming in C (new, by Marshall)
• Programming in C: A Tutorial (old, by Kernighan)
• "The C programming language" book website

GNU Make

• Basic Compilation Control with Gmake
• GNU Make documentation (start from chapter 2: Introduction)

Other on-line resources

• GSview - For viewing PostScript files.
• Safari book service (R&R book, free to read online)
• Online PDF conversion (useful for the homework assignments)

Updated: August 20, 2007