SYLLABUS Fall 2003 CSCI-E113

Class Date Lecture Reading Section Homework
Sep 17 Overview
Unix/C and the web
Sample Program
CR:Ch 3,4,9
K:Ch 2,3,4
Using Unix
Files and Dirs
Editors
Sep 24 The structure of C programs
Functions and filters
Arrays and Strings
CR:Ch 5,6,7,8
K:Ch 5,6,7,9
Functions and strings Assignment 0
Oct 1 Arrays and Strings
More Loops
Generating HTML
K:Ch 8, 10,
K:Sect 13.1-13.5
Arrays and memory
debugging
Assignment 1
Short Ones
due Sat Oct 4
Oct 8 Building interfaces
Shell Scripts
HTML Forms
See web page Shell scripts
Forms
Oct 15 Pointers
Strings
Functions
K:Ch 11,12
K:Sect 13.6
Using pointers Assignment 2
Table Converter
due Oct 18
Oct 22 Structs
Dynamic Memory Allocation
Linked Lists
K: Sect 16.1-16.2
K: Sect 17.1-17.6
Linked lists
Pointer Bugs
Assignment 3
Paper Pointers
due Oct 25
Oct 29 More Pointers
Multi-File Programs
K:Ch 14, 15 Pointer roundup
Using make
Nov 5 File I/O
Command Line Args
K:Ch 18, 22
K:Sect 13.7
Test Review Assignment 4
Word Freq
due Nov 8
Nov 12 Midterm Exam
Nov 19 Shell Programming 1
Scripts and args
CR:Ch 11 Focus on Files
and argv[]
Nov 26 No Class
Thanksgiving Eve
Assignment 5
Formletter
due Tues Dec 02
Dec 3 Shell Programming 2
Wildcards and Loops
CR:Ch 12 Shell scripts
Dec 10 Shell Programming 3
CGI in sh
See Web Site loops and quotes Assignment 6
Shell Scripts
due Dec 13
Dec 17 Complex CGI Programs
stat(), system()
See Web Site How a web
server works
 
Jan 7 Other languages
Regular expressions
CGI alternatives
CR:Sect 8.9, Ch 13 Exam review Assignment 7
Due Jan 10
Jan 21 Final Exam
Feb 2 First lecture of
CSCI-E215
Unix Systems Programming