CS456 - Systems Programming

Spring 2023

Class Hours

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Office Hours

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John Compton's office hours: in Online.

Course Description

The catalog description for this course is:

"An introduction to both program translation and operating systems. There will be a survey of topics such as: top-down and bottom up parsing, scanning, code generation, symbol table management, linkers and loaders, batch processing systems, interacting processes, multiprogramming systems, and memory management."

Learning Outcomes

Solid understanding of the Unix/Linux API.
Basic understanding of programming language translation

Recommended text

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