ITS8020

ITS8020 Systems Programming

Course Card
Lecturer: Jaagup Irve <jaagup.irve@ttu.ee>

For reference: last year materials can be found at Real-Time Operating Systems and Systems Programming. Most of it is still relevant.

Elevator pitch

The course is basically an advanced C course which delves into the intricacies of hardware, memory management and operating system design. It looks at basic operating system components (scheduling, mutexes) and also at Linux standard library. You will be expected to program difficult tasks and it will be englightening. The course has been enjoyed by numerous smart students over the years.

Grading

Grading is based on points earned during the course.

90+ points earns a grade of 5, and 50+ lets you pass. Exam can earn you up to 60 points and is difficult. Programming independently (lab) is worth 40 points max. There are 10 bonus points for attending and working on the labs. It is possible to agree on a different course project during the course.

Lectures

1. Introduction (course overview, grades, operator precedence, real time overview) PDF
2. Stack Exploration, Long Jump PDF
3. Heap (slides tbd)
4. Lecturer missing: Please watch the videos

Practice

• Basic command line and compilation
• Stack Exploration
• Exploring Debugger

Links

• Toyota killer firmware
• Use of Assertions
• How to C in 2016 - or why the lecturer should be deprecated
• Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit Redone - a take on a classic
• Raspberry Pi Os - an opsystem from scratch