Systems Programming - Lecture Schedule

See the TimeTable for times and locations of lectures and helpdesks.

Video recordings of lectures will be available from Panopto, which is accessible through Nuku/Canvas.

The schedule below provides an approximate distribution of topics among the 12 weeks of the trimester. Lecture slides, and additional materials/tutorial shall be posted as and when they become appropriate. Lecture slides uploaded before the lectures serve as pre-readings, and thus are subject to changes.

Week	Lecture	Topic, Slides and Other Resources	Lecturer
1	Lecture 1	Course Introduction	Jyoti Sahni
	Lecture 2	C Program Design, Compilation Process and C Fundamentals Practice Quiz Practice Quiz Solutions	Jyoti Sahni
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	Compilation process, Standard C library	Jyoti Sahni
2	Lecture 1	C Fundamentals (cont.); Functions; Function-Like Macros	Jyoti Sahni
	Lecture 2	Function-Like Macros (cont.), Arrays; Strings Practice Quiz Practice Quiz Solutions	Jyoti Sahni
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	Functions, Macros, Arrays and Strings(1)	Jyoti Sahni
3	Lecture 1	Strings(2), Structures	Jyoti Sahni
	Lecture 2	Structures, Pointers Practice Quiz Practice Quiz Solutions	Jyoti Sahni
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	Pointers(2), Tutorial - sscanf, sprintf and Pointers	Jyoti Sahni
4	Lecture 1	Pointers (3)	Jyoti Sahni
	Lecture 2	Pointers (4) Storage Classes; Process Layout Practice Quiz Practice Quiz Solutions	Jyoti Sahni
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	Pointers, Stuctures and Storage classes	Jyoti Sahni
5	Lecture 1	Dynamic Memory Management	Jyoti Sahni
	Lecture 2	Dynamic Memory Management (2), Introduction to Linked Lists Additional Lecture Material on Linked Lists (not assessed) Practice Quiz Practice Quiz Solutions	Jyoti Sahni
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	Holiday, No Lecture. Example code for practice	Jyoti Sahni
	Mid-Trimester Break
6	Lecture 1	Enum, Union, FILE Stream I/O	Jyoti Sahni
	Lecture 2	FILE Stream I/O and Command-Line Arguments	Jyoti Sahni
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	VLA, Dynamic memory allocation, file handling and command line arguments. Code samples	Jyoti Sahni
	Mid-term Test April 19 (Friday)	Timing: 17:00 - 18:00 Rooms for test: Class split (based on Last Name or Surname) HMLT205 : (A… - L…) KKLT303: (M… - Z…)
7	Lecture 1	Introduction to System Calls, Socket Programming (1)	Alvin Valera
	Lecture 2	Socket Programming (2) Practice Quiz Practice Quiz with Answers	Alvin Valera
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	Socket Programming Server code sample: server.c Client code sample: client.c	Alvin Valera
8	Lecture 1	System Calls and Process Management	Alvin Valera
	Lecture 2	Process Management System Calls Practice Quiz Practice Quiz with Answers	Alvin Valera
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	System Calls and Process Management	Alvin Valera
9	Lecture 1	Introduction to C++	Alvin Valera
	Lecture 2	C++ Classes Practice Quiz Practice Quiz with Answers	Alvin Valera
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	C++ Programming Fundamentals	Alvin Valera
10	Lecture 1	C++ Strings, Inheritance	Alvin Valera
	Lecture 2	Structures in C++, Containers, File Handling Practice Quiz	Alvin Valera
	Tutorial-Style Lecture	C++ Strings, Inheritance, Vectors	Alvin Valera
11	Lecture 1	File Handling (Part 2), Revisit of Constructors, Dynamic Memory Allocation	Alvin Valera
	Lecture 2	Friends, Templates	Alvin Valera
	Tutorial-Style Lecture		Alvin Valera
12	Lecture 1	Friend Functions	Alvin Valera
	Lecture 2	Revision	Alvin Valera
	Tutorial-Style Lecture		Alvin Valera
Exam Period	Final Exam Date and Time (TBD)