It's that time of year again! The Fall semester is about to start, and I'm teaching "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment". The syllabus and all course materials including all code examples is available here:

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

All video lectures are public and available for free on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@cs631apue/videos

If you want to follow along, I'll be posting lecture videos and related links in this thread throughout the semester.

#programming #unix #apue

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Tool Tip: ed(1) is the standard text editor

As part of our discussion of unix development tools, we take a short detour to provide a quick walkthrough of ed(1), the standard text editor. This is not done merely to up your geek creds, but understanding ed(1) will also helps us better understand other tools like vi(1), sed(1), and ultimately even things like diff(1) and patch(1) better.

https://youtu.be/mRZsV7aMK0I

#apue #unix #programming #ed

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Week 6: Memory Layout of a Process

Let's talk about the details of a process. We start with a visual representation of a process in memory and create a program that prints out the addresses of different elements of a program and observe the alignment of the text, data, and bss segments as well as the placement of the heap and stack. We also illustrate what a stack overflow looks like.

https://youtu.be/aHmcowhoOzU

#apue #unix #programming

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Tool Tip: ed(1) is the standard text editor

As part of our discussion of unix development tools, we take a short detour to provide a quick walkthrough of ed(1), the standard text editor. This is not done merely to up your geek creds, but understanding ed(1) will also helps us better understand other tools like vi(1), sed(1), and ultimately even things like diff(1) and patch(1) better.

https://youtu.be/mRZsV7aMK0I

#apue #unix #programming #ed

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Week 5: Using gdb(1), part IV

In our last segment on gdb(1), we use the debugger to examine memory locations in a running program and illustrate how pointers and arrays work in the C programming language.

https://youtu.be/hr-rn0yUhAw

#apue #unix #programming #gdb

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Week 5: Using gdb(1), part III

In this video lecture, we'll use our newly learned debugging skills to analyze and fix yet another flawed program. In the process, we learn to debug code from multiple source files and find out how to change the value of variables while the program is running.

https://youtu.be/hgcj7iAxhhU

#apue #unix #programming #gdb

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Week 5: Using gdb(1), part II

In this video lecture, we continue to explore the capabilities of the debugger. We show how you can set a breakpoint to pause the program and how to step through the program while watching our code.

https://youtu.be/fOp4Q4mnTD4

#apue #unix #programming #gdb

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Week 5: Using gdb(1)

Alright, let's look at gdb(1)! We begin by using it to troubleshoot our failing programs and immediately identify the location of our program where it segfaults. We also see how to inspect variables and call functions from within the debugger.

https://youtu.be/Miw0XLzHCws

#apue #unix #programming #gdb

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Week 5: Debugging your code

Next in our discussion of the Unix _development_ environment, we start a short series on the use of a debugger by example of gdb(1). First, we illustrate just why exactly we might want to use a separate tool instead of sprinkling "printf" statements all over our code...

https://youtu.be/61YwbTQy2G0

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Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

Some additional hints to set up your NetBSD environment for this class:

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/vm-setup.html

With all sources extracted, familiarize yourself with ctags(1) et al to make browsing code a breeze:

https://youtu.be/TWog5NklSws

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Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

Week 1: UNIX Basics

In this lecture, we provide a whirlwind tour of the Unix programming environment. In the process, we write a simple shell, a simple version of the ls(1) command, and two versions of the cat(1) command while learning about the Unix Philosophy.

https://youtu.be/w3spRzZ8bSA

#apue #unix #programming

Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

Week 1: UNIX History

We cover the early days at Bell Labs, USL vs BSDi, the birth of the BSDs and Linux, and how we got from Ken Thompson playing "Space Travel" on a PDP-7 to Unix running on your phone, fridge, and TV.

https://youtu.be/3H7SQWTR6Dw

Scroll along through it all here: https://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf

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Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

Week 1: Introduction

This video covers a lot of the meta information (what do we do, why are we doing it, how are we doing it, syllabus, etc.). Some things have changed since I created the video (for example, we now have an AI policy: https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/use-of-ai.html), but most of it remains accurate.

https://youtu.be/BsB9Cg6yJc4

#apue #programming #unix

It's that time of year again! The Fall semester is about to start, and I'm teaching "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment". The syllabus and all course materials including all code examples is available here:

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

All video lectures are public and available for free on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@cs631apue/videos

If you want to follow along, I'll be posting lecture videos and related links in this thread throughout the semester.

#programming #unix #apue

Instead of standardizing one templating syntax (that'll be bikeshedded to death), give us the primitive: fast DOM access from any language. Let a thousand templating libraries bloom - in any language. Lower-level primitives enable more innovation than high-level APIs. That's the Unix philosophy. Simple, composable, powerful. Build the foundation right. #compsci#webdev #wasm #frontend#unix