University of Arizona, Department of Computer Science

CSc 352: Systems Programming and Unix

Spring 2012

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What's New Updated: April 26
Course Description Programming in C, including single and multi-dimensional arrays, lists, stacks, queues, trees, and bit manipulation. Unix topics, including debuggers, makefiles, shell programming, and other topics that support C programming.

A detailed list of topics covered is given in the Syllabus.

The course has a significant programming load.

Prerequisites CSc 252 (co-requisite).
Meeting Times and Places: This course is available in traditional lecture format, meeting twice a week. There is an honors section that meets for an additional hour each week that is available to students who are members of the Honors Program. The choices are:
  • Traditional Lecture section: Students who attend in-person register for C SC 352 Section 001, meeting TuTh 9:30-10:45 AM in Speech & Hearing Sc., Room 205.

  • Honors section: In-person students registered in the Honors section (Section 002, C SC352H) attend the same in-person lectures as Section 001. In addition, C SC 352H (Section 002) has a discussion section that meets M 2:00-2:50 PM in Gould-Simpson 942.

Textbooks
  1. K. N. King, C Programming, 2nd. Edition. W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN: 978-0-393-97950-3.

  2. Cameron Newham and Bill Rosenblatt, Learning the bash Shell, 2nd Edition. O'Reilly Media, Inc. Print ISBN-13: 978-1-56592-347-8.
    Online version (free to UA students)
Instructor
Saumya K. Debray
Email: emailaddr
Office: Gould-Simpson 735; phone: 621-4527
Office Hours: Tue 2:30-4:00pm; Thu 1:30-3:00pm; or by appointment
Teaching Assistant:
Gavin Simons
Email: gsimons at email dot arizona dot edu
Office: Gould-Simpson 710-C; phone: TBA
Office Hours:
Wed 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Fri 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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Communication Announcements (and, more generally, communications) outside class hours will be made through the class mailing list, cs352s12; details, including instructions on how to subscribe, are given here. You have to explicitly subscribe to this list to get the mailings, and it is your responsibility to do so. Failure to subscribe to the mailing list, or to read its postings in a timely manner, are not acceptable reasons for failing to meet any announced changes to specifications or deadlines.
Students with Disabilities If you anticipate barriers related to the format or requirements of this course, please meet with me so that we can discuss ways to ensure your full participation in the course. If you determine that disability-related accommodations are necessary, please register with Disability Resources (621-3268) and notify me of your eligibility for reasonable accommodations. We can then plan how best to coordinate your accommodations.