LINUX System : Lecture 1 Course Overview

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LINUX System Lecture 1Course Overview

• Bong-Soo Sohn
• Assistant Professor
• School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Chung-Ang University

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Course Overview

• Level 4-th year CSE undergrad students
• Topics
• How to use UNIX in OS user perspective
• UNIX utilities, shell, script, etc
• Internal structures and algorithms of UNIX kernel
• process, file/directory structure, memory, etc
• UNIX System Programming
• Objective
• Understand internal structures of UNIX kernel
• Obtain the ability of programming under UNIX
  environment

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Course Overview

• Textbook
• No required textbook for now
• We will use on-line materials and some handouts.
• References
• UNIX Internals, the new frontiers, Uresh Vahalia
• Page 939-1017, Chapter 20, Operating Systems,
  Deitel, Deitel, Choffnes, 3rd Edition, Pearson
  Prentice Hall
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (2nd
  Edition), W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago,
  Addison Wesley

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Evaluation

• We will use Absolute Evaluation method.
• No predefined ratio of A, B, C grades
• Midterm 35
• Finalterm 35
• Assignments 25
• Including about two programming assignments
• Class Participation 5
• You may get F grade if you miss (more than) ¼ of
  the whole classes
• Academic dishonesty (e.g. cheating, plagiarism,
  and etc.) will be taken seriously, and heavy
  penalty can be imposed.

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Course Information

• Lecture Time Mon 3, 4 , Wed 4
• Lecture Room Engineering 2 6515
• English-Only Lecture
• English proficiency can be greatly improved by
  using and practicing English, not by just
  studying English.
• Instructor
• Office Engineering 2 - 6501
• Email bongbong_at_cau.ac.kr
• Office Tel [phone]
• Office Hour Thu 2pm-4pm, or individual
  appointment

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Announcement

• Class Website
• http//cau.ac.kr/bongbong/linux09
• Class information such as lecture notes can be
  accessible through this website
• We will also use MiniWeb to submit homework
• Programming Assignments
• We encourage to study and discuss together for
  doing programming assignments.
• However, you must do programming YOURSELF.
• You must not share any of source code with other
  students.
• Any kind of academic dishonesty will be taken
  seriously.

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Schedule
1 Course Overview, UNIX Overview
2 VMware, cygwin
3 UNIX Basic Utilities, Shell Basics
4 UNIX utilities (make,)
5 Shell Scripts
6 Shell Implementation , (homework)
7 UNIX system process concepts
8 Midterm Exam
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Schedule
9 UNIX process control (forkexec)
10 UNIX file system
11 UNIX file and directory structures
12 UNIX Memory Management
13 UNIX Signals
14 UNIX Inter-Process Communications
15 Supplementary topics
16 Final Exam
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Remarks

• This course assumes that students have basic
  knowledge of Operating Systems and C/C
  programming language.
• However, this course does not assume that
  students are familiar with UNIX/LINUX.

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Why UNIX/LINUX?

• Free ( LINUX )
• Concise
• Portable
• Open Source Code
• Stable, Robust and reliable
• Still used in many kinds of servers
• Database Servers, Web Servers, Business Servers,
• Powerful programming environment
• Multi-User, Multi-Tasking
• Network Support