Schedule

Instructor		Abhijit Das and Pralay Mitra
Timing		Slot N: Thursday 02:00pm – 05:00pm
Venue		CSE Software Labs (Old Building)
Teaching Assistants		Anamika Dey, Debraj Das, Dibya Kanti Haldar, Kunal Singh, Nandita Sharma, Saumyak Raj, Shreyansh Khandelwal

Notices and Announcements

Dec 29, 2023

For space limitations, we cannot accept any non-CSE student in this course.

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.

• Jack-Benny Persson, Linux System Programming Techniques, Packt Publishing, 2021.

• 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, third edition, Prentice-Hall, 2012.

Coverage

Date	Topic	Local Material	References
04-Jan-2024	Introduction to the course Common Unix commands gcc: stages of compilation	Slides Slides Slides	Your past, present, and future Sumitabha Das, Chapters 1–4, or Mark G. Sobell, Chapters 3 and 4 Brian Gough, Sections 11 and 12
11-Jan-2024	More on gcc (libraries, options, preprocessor macros) Introduction to make	Slides Slides	Brian Gough, Sections 1–4, 10.1 Rehman and Paul, Sections 4.1–4.5
18-Jan-2024	Lab Assignment 1 (on multi-file applications and libraries)	Statement	Solution
25-Jan-2024	More on make Introduction to gdb	Slides Slides	Rehman and Paul, Sections 4.1–4.5 Rehman and Paul, Sections 5.1–5.7, Persson, Chapter 12
01-Feb-2024	Lab Assignment 2 (on the make utility)	Statement	Solution
01-Feb-2024	More on gdb	Slides	Rehman and Paul, Sections 5.1–5.7, Persson, Chapter 12
08-Feb-2024	Lab Assignment 3 (on gdb)	Statement A3.zip	Solution
08-Feb-2024	Introduction to valgrind	Slides	Valgrind home, Sections 4.1–4.3 of manual, Persson, Chapter 12
29-Feb-2024	Lab Assignment 4 (on valgrind)	Statement A4.zip	Solution
29-Feb-2024	Introduction to gprof	Slides	Fenlason and Stallman, Sections 1–5
07-Mar-2024	Lab Assignment 5 (on gprof)	Statement A5.zip	Solution Alternative solution (almost as efficient, but 32 times more space-efficient)
07-Mar-2024	Regular expressions and grep	Slides	Mark G. Sobell, Appendix A, Sumitabha Das, Sections 10.1–10.4
14-Mar-2024	Introduction to awk	Slides	Mark G. Sobell, Chapter 12, Sumitabha Das, Chapter 12, Online tutorial
21-Mar-2024	Lab Assignment 6 (on gawk)	Statement proc.txt | output.txt	Solution
21-Mar-2024	Introduction to bash	Slides	Mark G. Sobell, Chapter 8, Sumitabha Das, Chapter 13
28-Mar-2024	Programming bash	Slides	Mark G. Sobell, Chapter 8, Sumitabha Das, Chapter 13
04-Apr-2024	Lab Assignment 7 (on bash programming)	Statement YouTube Video	Solution: cfrac.sh, clock.sh
08-Apr-2024	Lab Test (Quiz)	Questions with solutions
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