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CSCI 631, Section 1, Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-10:45

This course provides the required basics that are needed to develop networking software along with numerous case studies of existing network app lications. It teaches the principles of sockets programming and discusses the alternative strategies of network programming. Students are required to implement several programming projects on a UNIX-based system.

Textbook

UNIX Network Programming (3rd ed.), vol. 1, W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, and Andrew M. Rudoff, Addison Wesley, 2004. (ISBN 0131411551)

Course Materials for Spring 2015, Section 1

• Syllabus
• Outline
• Assignments & Examples
• Documentation Standards

Assignment Implementation Notes

• Assignment 1 is due at 23:59:42 by 2015-02-03
• Assignment 2 is due at 23:59:42 by 2015-02-26
• Assignment 3 is due at 23:59:42 by 2015-03-20
• Assignment 4 is due at 23:58:17 by 2015-04-14
• Assignment 5 is due at 23:59:59 by 2015-04-28
• HTTP Server Extra credit. Present in person before 2015-05-01.
• http.tar.gz for the http server

Lecture Notes

• Lecture Notes are on Blackboard
• 2015-02-17 (Tuesday) Midterm 1
• 2015-03-31 (Tuesday) Midterm 2
• 2015-05-07 (Thursday) FINAL EXAM @ 10-11:50 a.m.

Examples

• The official site providing the source code for the code examples in your textbook can be found here. And another copy that has been unarchived (individual files) can be found here.
• An introduction to some Unix/Linux commands that you might find helpful for this course..
• makeProg.tar.gz: How to compile multiple source files (with DBG macro).
• Avoid the use of Evil Filenames.
• Some lecture notes on fork(2) from a course at Michigan Tech.
• How to use #include guards
• Counting with Binary numbers
• Byte endianness.

Recommended Reading

TCP/IP

• PSD:20 An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial
• PSD:21 An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (2nd Edition), Fall & Stevens, Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, November 2011 (ISBN 0321336313)

Programming in C

• FREE BOOK!! Managing Projects with GNU Make from O'Reilly & Assoc.
• The GNU Make Manual
• The C Programming Language (2nd ed.) Kernighan & Ritchie, Prentice Hall, April 1, 1988 (ISBN 0131103628)
• Head First C A free introductory level book programming using the C language.
• The GNU C Library A user manual for the standard C library used on Linux.
• Doxygen Manual - A good way to comment your code.

Unix & Nostalgia

• Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On Wired Magazine, 2011-10-13
• The UNIX Time-Sharing System D. M. Ritchie and K. Thompson, Communications of the ACM, Volume 17 Issue 7, July 1974, Pages 365-375
• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, Michael A. Hiltzik
• The Soul of A New Machine, Tracy Kidder

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