This course is designed to provide a substantial exposure to the C programming language in a Unix environment for students with basic programming experience.

The content of the course includes the following topics:

o Part I – Advanced Features of C
• Pointer and Arrays
• C Preprocessor
• Bitwise Operations
• File Input/Output
• Debugging and Optimization
• Advanced Pointers
• Modular Programming
• Portability Problem

o Part II – Advanced Unix Tools
• Unix Basics: essential commands, pipes, redirections
• Effective Programming: emacs/vi, svn/git, make, gdb
• Useful Tools: grep, sed, diff, xargs, find, …
• Scripting: Bash, Perl/Python

o Part III: Simple Data Structure and Algorithms
• Queue, Stack, Linked List
• Searching, Sorting

Week    Topics
1    Course Introduction
2    Unix Basics: Process Control
3     Unix Basics: Setup Environment
4    C Revisited; Pointer, Array, and Strings
5    Advanced Pointers (1): malloc, calloc, realloc, and free
6    Advanced Pointers (2): Dynamic Allocation
7    Module Programming
8    Basic Data Structure (1): Stack and Queue
9    Midterm
10    Basic Data Structure (2): Linked List
11    Basic Data Structure (3): Tree
12    Basic Algorithm (1): Big O nation, Algorithm Analysis
13    Basic Algorithm (2): Searching and Sorting
14    Problem Solving (1)
15    Problem Solving (2)
16    Problem Solving (3)
17    Basic Shell Programming
18    Final Exam

The course will involve lectures by instructor, lab exercises, and programming assignments on various topics. Students are expected to participate the exercises, and write the assignments on their own. There will be a midterm conducted as a written test, and a final exam including written and programming tests.

教材與教學準備、實驗或實習輔助、作業諮詢與批改

o Midterm: 20%
o Final Exam: 40%
o Labs & Assignments: 40%
o Bonus (participation): < 5%

o The C programming Language (2nd Edition), K&R.
o Advanced C, Peter D. Hipson.
o C Unleashed, Richard Heathfield et al.
o Unix Unbounded a beginning approach, AMIR Afzal.