COTS Challenges for Embedded Systems

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E81 CSE 532S Advanced Multi-Paradigm Software
Development
Course Introduction
Chris Gill Department of Computer Science and
Engineering Washington University in St.
Louis cdgill_at_cse.wustl.edu
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Well Use all 4 Main Paradigms in C

• Procedural
• Iterators, algorithms
• Functional
• Binders, functions
• Object oriented
• Classes, inheritance
• Generic
• Templates, concepts and models, type inference,
  interface polymorphism

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Well Also Study Software Engineering

• Architectural Patterns
• For concurrent (and later networked) software
• Design Patterns
• For well structured code
• C Idioms
• For well behaved software

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Exploration Through Studio Exercises

• Hands-on experience within each individual topic
  covered
• Reinforce assigned readings and classroom
  discussions
• Completion of required exercises (including
  posting your answers) is a baseline for the
  participation grade

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Well Develop 4 Team Projects

• One basic, one intermediate, two more advanced
• Explore interactions between paradigms, patterns,
  idioms
• Hands on experience building concurrent system
  software
• Reinforce assigned readings, examples, and
  exercises

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Course Resources

• Required Text
• Williams Williams C Concurrency in Action
• Readings will be assigned throughout the semester
• Exams will cover all material in the course
• Assigned readings as well as posted slides,
  studio exercises, and labs
• Optional Texts (for reference and/or additional
  reading)
• Stroustrup Stroustrup The C Programming
  Language
• LLM Lippman, Lajoie, and Moo C Primer
• Course Web Page
• www.cse.wustl.edu/cdgill/courses/cse532/
• classes.cec.wustl.edu/cse532/
• Reading assignments, studios, labs, course
  syllabus and info
• Course account cse532_at_seas.wustl.edu (submit
  labs there)

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Course Prerequisites

• CSE 332S, Object-Oriented Software Development
  Laboratory (or graduate standing and proficiency
  with C)
• C language features and idioms for memory
  management, aliasing (pointers and references),
  classes and inheritance polymorphism, templates
  and interface polymorphism, function and operator
  overloading, etc.
• Grad students assumed able to self-study rapidly
  on this if needed
• CSE 422S (Operating Systems)
• Conceptual foundations threads, deadlocks, race
  conditions, etc.
• Practical hands-on experience with threads,
  debuggers, etc.

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Course Objective Mastery

• Mastery is a path, not a destination
• George Leonard
• if you only walk long enough.
• Lewis Carroll

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First Reading Assignment

• Please read before the next lecture
• Required Williams Chapter 1
• Optional Stroustrup Chapter 42.1-42.2
• Questions to consider
• What is concurrency?
• How do C11 threads abstract independent
  computations?
• Why and when should you use multi-threading?