CS 270: Systems Programming (Fall 2020)

Location:     Fully Online Via Zoom
Time:           MWF 1:00 -- 1:50pm (Monday, Wednesday and Friday)
Instructor
Zongming Fei
Email: fei@cs.uky.edu
Office: 227 James F. Hardymon Building, (859)257-3202,
Office hours via Zoom: M 2:00-3:00 and W 3:00-4:00 (or by appointment)
TA
Jonathan "Indy" Watson
Email: jonathan.watson@uky.edu
Office Hour Location: via Zoom
Office hours: TBD

Important Links

  1. C programming tips (by Dr. Finkel)

  2. CS Portal at https://www.cs.uky.edu/csportal

  3. How to connect to UK campus VPN

  4. Instructions on How to use VM of OpenStack and with a VPN connection, you can access OpenStack Dashboard and ssh to VM.

  5. American Standard Code for Information Interchange or ASCII

  6. Here are some information about the gdb debugger:
Required Textbook

Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition), ISBN 978-0-13-409266-9 (ISBN10: 0-13-409266-X), Pearson, 2016.
The webpage for the book is at http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu. The textbook has an associated "student site" at http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/students.html, with pointers to helpful resources for the C language and the Linux operating system/programming environment, as well as additional resources for specific textbook chapters.

Lecture Slides and Handouts