Welcome to Comp 398.

Catalog Descritpion: The central concept explored in this course is the process, an instance of a program in execution. The course examines the ways the operating system facilitates the management of processes and the services it provides to processes. Students will also learn how to write programs that create new processes, and programs that create multiple threads of execution within a single process to take advantage of today’s multi-core processors.

Course Basics

Lecture:

Tue-Thu 2:00PM-3:20PM, Science Center 1315

Instructor:	Martin Gagné
Email:	lastname_firstname at wheatoncollege dot edu
Office:	Science Center 1323
Office Hours:	Monday 10:00AM-12:00PM Wednesday 2:00PM-4:00PM Friday 1:00PM-2:00PM and by appointment

Course Discussion:

Piazza (by invitation, mandatory enrollment)

Course Textbook

There is no required textbook for the course. Over the course of the semester, I will recommend readings extracted from a number of books, I will add the references here as they become relevant.

Additional references

This course provides an introduction to imperative programming as well as the C program language. Each could warrant their own course of study and we highly recommend you study them further. Some references of use:

• C for Python Programmers by Carl Burch
• The C Book by Banahan, Brady, Doran
• C Programming by Steve Holmes
• Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear and Direct Introduction to Mondern C Programming" bt Zed Shaw
• C and Unix Documentation from the Stanford CS Education Library
• Tutorial on Pointers in C by Ted Jensen
• C for Java Programmers by Indranil Gupta, Cornell University
• A C programming course by Steve Summit, online course material
• Programming in C by A.D. Marshall, notes and examples
• Google. Seriously, it's a really good place to look for stuff, but make sure that you look for explanations, not for solutions (see section on Academic misconduct).