Topics will include

• C programming language for Java programmers (2 weeks, 2 assignments)
  • summary of differences
  • pre-processor
  • strings
  • stdio
  • pointers and pointer arithmetic
  • malloc/free
  • unions
  • function pointers
• Software development models, including open source
• Software development tools:
  • Unix
    • make
    • automake
    • autoconf -- cross-platform development
    • CVS
    • doc++ and other documentation tools Oxygen
    • gdb and DDD
    • purify, ElectricFence
    • truss
    • profiling: gprof
  • Windows
    • Visual C
    • Code Warrior
• Program models: data driven, event driven, cgi, RPC, ...
• Data interchange
  • classical Unix style
  • serialization
  • XML
• Scripting languages
  • sh
  • awk, sed
  • Tcl, expect
  • Perl
  • Python
• Web programming models (servlets, cgi, JavaScript, PHP, ...)
• Web database interfaces (JDBC, mySQL, ...)
• Standard Unix system call interface:
  • file access
  • time and date manipulation
  • system files
  • process management
  • signals
  • getopt
  • syslog
• Internationalization
• Secure programming
• UML
• Selected OO design patterns

• threads and concurrency
• shared memory