ECE 537 Advanced Engineering Programming
Class Notes

Introduction

• What is Linux? (Glass & Ables, chapter 1)

History

• History and evolution of Unix, Dennis Ritchie, 1984.
• History of C Programming Language, Dennis Ritchie, 1993.
• Brief history of UNIX Mike Loukides, an editor at O'Reilly & Associates, date unknown (2000?)
• In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson The Command Line is an essay that covers computer OSes, society, Disney Land, and an amazing amount of other information.

Desktops

• Desktop environments and Window managers

First Steps

• First shell script
• First C programs: “Hello, World!”

Gnu Compiler Collection

• GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
• GNU compiler internals
• GNU C Library Reference Manual

System Programming

• Program Arguments
• Environment Variables
• User Information
• Host Information
• Program Termination
• Error Reporting

• Date and Time

Files

• Directories
• Streams and File Descriptors
• Low-Level Input/Output
• I/O Streams
• Example directory-scan programs

Processes

• Process Environment (Stevens and Rago, chapter 7)

Qt

• Qt Graphics

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