Part 1 – An Introduction to This Course
Dept. of CSE, BUAA

 1. Course description and content
 2. Course Objectives and Schedule
 3. Prerequisites
 4. Course Materials: textbook and supplementary reading
 5. Assignments and Grading
 6. Course Communication
 7. Software
Unix Programming Environment Dept. of CSE, BUAA

Programmers End-users
Operating System
Designers
Applications
Development Toolset
Unix Operating System
Computer Hardware
Course Content:
1.
Unix commands & utilities( editors, etc )
2.
Development Toolset( compilers, linkers, build system )
3.
O.S. Programming Interfaces
4.
Basic concepts and architecture of Unix Kernels
Unix Programming Environment Dept. of CSE, BUAA

Part 1
Week 1
Part 2
Week 1
Part 3
Week2.3.4
Introducation to this course
Unix History, Concetps and fundmentals
Unix Commands &
Utilities
Agenda, Objectives, Exams & Homework, and reference materials
History of Unix
Major Unix Features
System architecture: kernel, file system, system interface, shells
Unix File system
Unix Commands & Utilities: including text editor like vi, etc
Using Unix Shell
Regular expression in Unix
Part 4
Week5
B-Shell Programming
Unix Programming Environment Dept. of CSE, BUAA

Part 5
Part 6
Week 7.8
Unix
Development
Tools
- GNU Toolset
Make, compilers, linker, gdb, lex, yacc
GNU building system: autoconf, automake
Version management: cvs
Unix System
Interface
Programming
Overview of Unix Internal: including modern Unix systems like Solaris, standardization
File system, File and Directory
Process control and signal
* Inter-process communication in Unix: SYSTEM V IPC, POSIX IPC
* Multithread: P-Thread interface
Unix Programming Environment Dept. of CSE, BUAA

 Prerequisites
 C programming language, Operating System
 Course Materials:
 Textbook: <Unix Programming Environment> by Brian Kernighan
 References:
 <Advanced Shell Programming>
 <C Programming Language> by K &R
 <Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment> by Steven.
 The Design of the UNIX operating System, Maurice Bach, Prentice Hall, 1986.
 The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System, Marshall McKusick,
Keith Bostic, Michael Karels and John Quarterman, Addison-Wesley, 1996.
 UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers, Uresh Vahalia, Prentice Hall, 1996.
 Understanding The Linux Kernel, version 2
 Other supplementary readings can be download from the website dedicated to this course.
Unix Programming Environment Dept. of CSE, BUAA

 1. Assignments
 2. Grading
80%
20%
Homework
Misc.
Unix Programming Environment Dept. of CSE, BUAA

 Students should check this course’s website regularly for schedule changes, clarifications and corrections to assignments, and other course-related announcements.
 http://202.112.136.188
 Urgent changes may be broadcasted using e-mail.
 Get lectures, supplementary materials from
 http:// 202.112.136.188 /lectures.htm
Unix Programming Environment Dept. of CSE, BUAA

 1. CygWin
 2. Any Current Linux Distributions
 Redhat, Mandrake, etc
 3. Any Unix-like Distributions:

OpenBSD, FreeBSD

Solaris
 4. VMware
Unix Programming Environment Dept. of CSE, BUAA