CSCV352

System Programming and Unix

Course Description

CSCV352 is designed to develop an understanding of the various components of the Unix operating system from both a system user’s perspective and a system programmer’s perspective including both the shell and programming interfaces; to write sophisticated C applications using multiple source files and separate compilation; and to implement algorithms involving complex data types and structures. CSCV352 meets the National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO) academic requirements for Low Level Programming.

Learning Outcomes

The student will:

• Learn basic Unix shell skills.
• Remote login to a console.
• Discuss the history of Unix.
• Manipulate and create files using a Unix text editor.
• Change file permissions in Unix.
• Construct a basic BASH shell script.
• Create and compile a C program.
• Debug a C program using gdb.
• Use the scanf and printf functions to read and write formatted data.
• Construct an expression from C operators and their operands.
• Use if-then-else and switch constructs to implement selection logic.
• Perform iteration in a C program using for, while, and do-while loops.
• Identify the basic data types provided by the C programming language.
• Implement and invoke functions.
• Identify common blocks and variable scope.
• Declare and demonstrate manipulation of string (character arrays).
• Declare and manipulate 1-d and 2-d arrays.
• Perform pointer arithmetic.
• Develop programs to read and write from files.
• Develop a dynamic memory allocation program.
• Demonstrate advanced manipulation of array data.
• Demonstrate how to implement a C struct.
• Create a simple algorithm using dynamic memory allocation and structures.
• Demonstrate the ability to link together multiple C files using header files.
• Demonstrate the ability to create object files.
• Create a makefile.