COP 5570 Advanced Unix Programming http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~xyuan/cop5570

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COP 5570Advanced Unix Programminghttp//www.cs.f
su.edu/xyuan/cop5570

• Instructor Xin Yuan
• Email xyuan_at_cs.fsu.edu
• Office 168 Lov Building
• Phone [phone]
• Office hours 130pm-330pm TR, or by appointment

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Syllabus

• Standard UNIX APIs 
• Processes and threads   
• Socket programming 
• Select calls
• Blocking and non-blocking I/O 
• Broadcast/multicast
• Raw sockets
• Remote method invocation
• Client-server paradigm
• Peer-to-Peer paradigm

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Pre-requisites

• Operating systems - COP 4610 or equivalent
• Basic course on networks (highly desirable) CEN
  5515 or equivalent.
• Proficiency in C - absolute must!!
• Pointers, Makefiles, Compiling, Debugging
• Working knowledge of Unix environment
• Shell, commands, vi, emacs.
• A self testing quiz at the end of this class.

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Grading

• Programming assignments - 50
• Midterm - 20
• Final - 30

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Programming assignments

• Individual projects
• First assignment next class.
• Typically one to two weeks per-assignment
• Start early!
• Ask questions early!

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Some Potential Programming assignments

• A warm-up project to be given in the next class
• Multi-process solution to a large computational
  problem
• Process management, inter-process communication
• Implementing shell
• Process management, UNIX system call APIs,
  signals, I/O
• Multi-computer solution to a large computational
  problem
• Process management, inter-process communication,
  socket programming
• Web client/server implementation
• Client server paradigm, server implementation
  techniques, socket programming
• Internet packet analyzer
• TCP/IP concepts
• Implementing a simple communication library
• Socket programming, p2p, signal or thread
• UNIX shell programming

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• Academic Integrity
• No copying from anywhere
• Dont solve assignments for others
• Dont ask others for solutions and dont give
  solutions to others.
• Automated (software) plagiarism detection tools
  will be used in this course.
• Dishonesty
• First violation 0 for the particular
  assignment/exam and the lowering of one letter
  (A-gtB) for course final grade.
• Second violation F for the second violation.
• Explanations will be directed to the university
  Honor Court judges and will not be listened by
  the Instructor.

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• Accommodation for Disabilities
• Register with and provide documentation to the
  Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC).
• Bring a letter to me from the SDRC indicating
  you need academic accomodations. This should be
  done within the first week of class