| Instructor: | Derek Harter |
| Office: | Jour 208 (Lab Sci 355) |
| Phone: | 903-886-5402 (Jour 208) 903-468-8762 (Sci 255) |
| Email: | Derek_Harter@tamu-commerce.edu |
| Office Hours: | T,W 10:00am-Noon T 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
| Class: | W 2:00 - 4:30 pm BA 225 |
This course is designed to introduce advanced concepts of programming and applications of UNIX-based computing environments. The UNIX model of networking, inter-process communication (IPC), and TCP/IP sockets are the major topics to be discussed. The class will include a major programming project involving intensive coding of an application involving IPC and networking concepts introduced in class.
The course is one of the three required courses for completion of the networking track of the Masters program in Computer Science at TAMU-C. The topic of focus in this course is UNIX network programming. The instructor will introduce fundamental concepts of the UNIX programming model. In particular, we will look at modularization of programming tasks. Modularization not only in the sense of separate functions within a process, but as separate processes that cooperate to perform a task. Breaking a task into several cooperating processes necessitates learning methods of inter-process communication (IPC), ultimately leading to communication of processes distributed across separate machines over a network. As part of this course, you will complete many labs in class and outside programming assignments. The course will also require a major programming project. The students will be responsible for identifying and selecting an appropriate application of networking to be performed as a course project. Upon the approval of the instructor, the implementation project can be started immediately. Since this course is a very programming intensive course, the implementation project is a very essential part of the successful course completion.
CSCI-525 and CSCI-530
| [UPU] UNIX
for Programmers and Users, 3/E by Graham Glass and King Ables Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN: 0-13-046553-4 |
| [AUP] The
Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond Addison Wesley Professional, 2003, ISBN: 0-13-142901-9 Free CC license version: http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu |
| [UNP] UNIX
Network Programming, Vol. 1: The Sockets Networking API, 3/E by Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, and Andrew M. Rudoff Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003, ISBN: 0-13-141155-1 |