Systems Programming

Catalog description

This course introduces students to programming at a systems level using the C programming language. C programming topics covered include variables, functions, pointers, and structures. This course also introduces students to the mechanisms for interacting with operating system services. Topics include process creation and management, inter process communication, memory allocation and management, concurrency and synchronization, and input/output. Students are introduced to the concepts of compilation, linking, macros, build systems, and version control.