CITS2002 Systems Programming

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C textbooks

OS textbooks

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Look after yourself!

Unix, C language, and library Resources

To obtain further details about the functions described here, type man functionname on the CSSE laboratory computers.

Frequently used Unix commands.
The Wikipedia entry for the C programming language.
Standard C Library Functions.
POSIX Library Functions (which are not part of the Standard C Library),

Online books and tutorials

The Bourne-Again Shell
Learn C Programming - The Definitive Guide, by Programiz.
The Definitive C Book Guide and List, by contributors to stackoverflow.
C Programming Notes, by Steve Summit, Experimental College, University of Washington (1997, a little dated).
- Introductory C Programming, chapters 1-14.
- Intermediate C Programming, chapters 15-25.
The C Book, by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran (originally by Addison Wesley, 1991).
A tutorial on pointers and arrays in C, by Ted Jensen, Sept 2003.
C Tutorial, from java2s.com (lots of information, but difficult to navigate).
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years", by Peter Norvig.
GeeksforGeeks, a computer science portal for geeks.

Moving from Java to C?

The following resources may be useful for those programmers who have previously programmed in Java:

Learning C from Java, originally written by Steven Simpson, is about 20 pages and may be helpful for many Java programmers.

On C history

The Development of the C Language, an historical reflection by Dennis Richie, one of the original authors of the C programming language.
Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know .
Dennis Ritchie - Write in C .

C standards documents (C99, C11, C17)

"[These documents specify] the form and establishes the interpretation of programs expressed in the programming language C. [Their] purpose is to promote portability, reliability, maintainability, and efficient execution of C language programs on a variety of computing systems. Clauses are included that detail the C language itself and the contents of the C language execution library. Annexes summarize aspects of both of them, and enumerate factors that influence the portability of C programs. Although [these standards are] intended to guide knowledgeable C language programmers as well as implementors of C language translation systems, the document itself is not designed to serve as a tutorial."

WG14 N1570 , 660pp,
The publicly available draft version of the ISO/IEC C11 standard (dated 2012-04-12).
WG14 N1256 , 540pp,
The publicly available version of the ISO-C99 standard and the Technical Corrigendums 1, 2, & 3 (dated 2007-09-08).
C99RationaleV5.10 , 224pp,
The rationale for the ISO-C99 standard.
WG14 N2176 , 476pp,
The publicly available draft version of the ISO/IEC C17 standard (dated 2017-04).

Other

The exhibition from the (online) Computer History Museum
What Your Computer Does While You Wait
After Moore's Law
Detailed overview of linkers - a summary (blog) by Ian Lance Taylor.
How Not to Go About a Programming Assignment , The SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol 36(2), June 2004.
How to Fail a Programming Assignment , The SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol 39(2), June 2007.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - Why is everyone in such a rush?, by Peter Norvig.