This course focuses on teaching the programming in C and advanced programming in Unix environments, including multiprocessing and multithreading. Upon completing this course, students will:

• master C basic types, arrays, and pointers,
• be familiar with the UNIX development environment, using utilities such as Makefiles, gcc, and gdb,
• master standard Input/Output,
• be familiar with process address spaces: Data, Heap, Code, and Stack,
• master dynamic memory management,
• master multithreading and synchronization,
• master writing program solutions to problems using the above features.