Schedule

Instructor		Abhijit Das and Arobinda Gupta
Timing		Slot L: Tuesday 02:00pm – 05:00pm
Venue		Online
Teaching Assistants		Anunay Sharma, Bajaru Sashank Srivardhan, Gaurav Goyal, Kanishk Singh, Venktesh Shrimant Lagaskar.

Coverage

Date	Topic	Local Material	References
04-Jan-2022	Introduction to gcc	Slides	Gough, Sections 1–4, 10.1, 11, 12
11-Jan-2022	Introduction to gcc (contd)
18-Jan-2022	Common Unix commands Introduction to make	Slides Slides	Sobell, Chapters 3 and 4 Rehman and Paul, Sections 4.1–4.5
25-Jan-2022	Introduction to the GNU debugger gdb	Slides	Rehman and Paul, Sections 5.1–5.7
01-Feb-2022	Introduction to valgrind	Slides	Valgrind home, Sections 4.1–4.3 of manual
08-Feb-2022	Introduction to gprof	Slides	Fenlason and Stallman, Sections 1–5
15-Feb-2022	Basic regular expressions	Slides	Sobell, Appendix A or Das, Section 10.4
01-Mar-2022	Introduction to grep and sed	Slides	Sobell, Chapter 13 (sed) or Das, Sections 10.1–10.3 (grep), 10.6–10.12 (sed)
08-Mar-2022	Introduction to gawk	Slides	Sobell, Chapter 12 or Das, Sections 12
15-Mar-2022	Basics of bash	Slides	Sobell, Chapter 8
15-Mar-2022	Programming bash: Part 1	Slides	Sobell, Chapter 8 or Das, chapter 13
22-Mar-2022	Programming bash: Part 2	Slides	Sobell, Chapter 8 or Das, chapter 13 [See slides for sample exercises]

Books and References

• Sumitabha Das, Your Unix/Linux: The Ultimate Guide, third edition, McGraw Hill, 2013.
• Jay Fenlason and Richard Stallman, GNU gprof, 1988–2021.
• Brian Gough, An Introduction to GCC, 2004–2005.
• Rafeeq Ur Rehman and Christopher Paul, The Linux Development Platform: Configuring, Using and Maintaining a Complete Programming Environment, Pearson Education, 2003.
• Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Linux: Commands, Editors and Shell Programming, second edition, Prentice-Hall, 2010.

Tests (Tentative)

• Second programming assignment: Input | Output