CPE3007 - Program Development using UNIX

Subject Handbook - Semester One 2003

Introduction

Subject organisation

Each student attends one 3 hour lecture and one 2 hour tutorial per week. Each tutorial has a maximum of 20 students, thus lending itself to a high level of interaction.

Effort

This subject requires a significant amount of time to be spent outside the scheduled lectures and tutorials.

Tutorial Attendance

Attendance at tutorials is NOT compulsory, however past experience has shown that those students who do not attend tutorials, usually fail the subject. Exercises relating to each week's material are set to help students achieve the educational objectives of this subject. Any exercises not completed in tutorial time should be completed in the student's own time. There is an expectation by the tutor that exercises set for a particular week will have been attempted before the tutorial time in the following week.

Lecture and Tutorial Staff

Lecturer: Jan Newmarch
Office: Peninsula G427
Phone: 990 44249
Email: jan@newmarch.name

Curriculum

Format

One semester of 13 weeks. Students attend one 2 hour lecture and one 2 hour tutorial per week.

Aim

To provide students with an understanding of the main features of the UNIX operating system, with particular emphasis on file handling, shell script programming, application programming in the C or java programming environment and simple inter-process communication and client/server programming.

Objectives

At the completion of this subject a student should:

have an appreciation of the structure and features of UNIX.
be able to write shell scripts to drive programming environments and integrate UNIX utilities.
understand file management and processing in the UNIX environment
understand processes and inter-process communication in the UNIX environment.
be able to interface with the UNIX environment using system calls from C or java programs.

Resources

Computer hardware

All teaching within this subject is based on the use of the UNIX system (venus) supplied by the Monash Information Technology Services. As part of your enrollment in this subject you will be given a username and password on venus. These details will be discussed during the lecture in the first week.

Computer software

All teaching within this subject is based on UNIX and C as implemented on venus. All of your exercises and assignments must be run on venus.

Subject Web Page

All course material is available for viewing and down-loading from the web page address http://jan.newmarch.name/ProgrammingUnix/.

Textbooks

Recommended Books

The following text book has been recommended for this subject and are available through the bookshop:

G. Glass and K. Ables "Unix for Programmers and Users", Prentice-Hall

Other References

Haviland, K. & Salama, B. "UNIX System Programming", Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
Kochan, S.G. & Wood, P.H."UNIX Shell Programming", Hayden Books, Howard Sams and Company.
Bach, M.J., "The Design of the UNIX Operating System", Prentice-Hall
Bourne S.R., "The UNIX System", Addison-Wesley
Christian, K "The UNIX Operating System", John Wiley and Sons.
Prata, S. "Advanced UNIX: A Programmer's Guide", H.W. Sams and Company
Rochkind, M.J. "Advanced UNIX Programming", Prentice-Hall International
Sobell, M. G. "UNIX System V: A Practical Guide", Benjamin Cummings
Swartz, R. "UNIX Applications Programming: Mastering The Shell", SAMS-Macmillan Publishing
Tanenbaum, A.S. "Operating Systems Design and Implementation" Prentice-Hall International

Assessment

Assessable components

There will be one final examination (worth 50% of the total assessment), and assignment work (worth 50% of the total assessment). Assignment work includes

a shell script programming assignment (20%)
a simple C programming assignment (10%)
a system call programming assignment in C (20%).

To pass the subject you must obtain at least 50% of the total marks given in the subject, and at least 50% of the total marks given for the formal examination and at least 40% of the marks given for the assignments.

Policy on Plagiarism

Students should consult University materials on cheating, in particular:

Statute 4.1 on Discipline at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/calendar/statutes/statute4.1.html
Student Resource Guide at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/srg/, particularly the section on Cheating at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/srg/srg0071.htm
Student Resource Guide - section on Student Rights and Responsibilities at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/srg/srg0059.htm
Faculty policy at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ajh/adt/policies/cheating.html

It is the student's responsibility to make themselves familiar with the contents of these documents.

Jan Newmarch (http://jan.newmarch.name)