Schedule

Instructor		Abhijit Das and Bivas Mitra
Timing		Slot N: Thursday 02:00pm – 05:00pm
Venue		BTech students: CSE Software Lab (Annex Building) Dual-degree students: CSE PC Lab (Old Building)
Teaching Assistants		Ashutosh Varshney, Debasree Das, Harsh Borse, Kothapalli Dileep, Narayan Gupta, Rangoju Narasimha Venkata Sai Kumar, Sriyash Poddar.

Coverage

Date	Topic	Local Material	References
05-Jan-2023	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
12-Jan-2023	More on gcc (libraries, options, preprocessor macros)	Slides	Brian Gough, Sections 1–4, 10.1
19-Jan-2023	Programming Assignment 1	Statement	Solution
02-Feb-2023	Introduction to make Introduction to gprof	Slides Slides	Rehman and Paul, Sections 4.1–4.5 Fenlason and Stallman, Sections 1–5
05-Feb-2023	Programming Assignment 2	Statement Word list	Submit by 26-Feb-2023, 11:55pm (Hard Deadline)
09-Feb-2023	Introduction to gdb Introduction to valgrind	Slides Slides	Rehman and Paul, Sections 5.1–5.7, Persson, Chapter 12 Valgrind home, Sections 4.1–4.3 of manual, Persson, Chapter 12
02-Mar-2023	Programming Assignment 3	Statement oops.zip	Solution to be posted later
02-Mar-2023	Regular expressions and grep	Slides	Mark G. Sobell, Appendix~A, Sumitabha Das, Sections 10.1–10.4
09-Mar-2023	Introduction to awk	Slides	Mark G. Sobell, Chapter 12, Sumitabha Das, Chapter 12
15-Mar-2023	Lab Test 1 (Written)	Questions with solutions
16-Mar-2023	Introduction to bash	Slides	Mark G. Sobell, Chapter 8, Sumitabha Das, Chapter 13
23-Mar-2023	Programming Assignment 4	Statement mtree.txt	Solution: bintree.awk
30-Mar-2023	Programming bash	Slides	Mark G. Sobell, Chapter 8, Sumitabha Das, Chapter 13
06-Apr-2023	Programming Assignment 5	Statement	Solution: fibrep.sh, loginfo.sh
13-Apr-2023	Lab Test 2 (Written)	Questions with solutions

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, second edition, Prentice-Hall, 2010.