Course Contents
1: Intro in OS
1.1: Intro to OS using Linux
1.2: File systems
1.3: Getting your CLI-feet wet
2: Introduction in C
2.1: The C programming language
2.2: String Manipulation
2.3: Creating order: Structures
2.4: Structs
2.5: C Ecosystems
2.6: Splitting up Code
3: Introduction in CPU
3.1 Von Neumann Architecture
3.2: Assembly basics
3.3 Functions and The Stack
3.4: The Stack
4: Pointers & Arrays
4.1: Pointers and arrays
4.2: Practical Use of Pointers
4.3: The Ancient Library
5: Debugging
5.1: The Easy Way: IDEs
5.3: The Middle Way: TDD
5.2: The Hard Way: GDB
6: Task management
6.1: Processes
6.2: Processes (lab)
6.3: Inter Process communication
6.4: Threads
6.5: Threads (lab)
6.6: Inter Thread communication
6.7: Inter-Thread communication (lab)
7: CPU scheduling
7.1: Scheduling algorithms
7.2: Scheduling algorithms (lab)
7.3: Towards real-world schedulers
7.4: Mr. nice guy(lab)
8: The Stack & The Heap
8.1: The Stack & the Heap
8.2: Inspecting memory regions
8.3: Different Scopes in C
9: Memory Management
9.1: Memory management
9.2: Deliberate Segfaulting
9.3: Paging
9.4: Simply browsing through pages
X: Capita Selecta
X.1: Real-time Operating Systems
X.2: Device Drivers
X.3: Nginx Web server
A. Assignments
1. Integrated C exercise
2. Testing in C(++)
3. Inter-thread communication
4. Pseudo scheduler
None yet!
B. Appendix
1. Recommended reading
2. Linux Installation Instructions
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Chapter 4
Pointers and Arrays
Chapter 4 handles the following subjects:
Arrays in C
Pointers in C: arrays don’t exist!
By-reference, By-value
malloc()
,
free()
Function pointers
Practical examples of pointers:
Aritmetics
Linked Lists
Swapping Values