Teaching C for Operating Systems
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Lecture 1: Introduction to C
	* Why C?
	* Hello World
	* Compilation
	* printf
	* variables
	* variables as memory
	* loops, conditionals
	* functions
	* sizeof
	* arrays
	* int types
	* strings
	* bitwise operators
	* linking, libc, libm
	* preprocessor directives

Lecture 2: I/O and processes
	* string functions
	* sprintf
	* file pointers
	* scanf
	* file I/O - fprintf, fread, fwrite, fopen
	* file permissions
	* perror, errno
	* file descriptors
	* strace
	* system calls - read, write, open
	* executing processes
	* fork

Lecture 3: Data Structures and Pointers
	* enumerated types
	* data structures
	* typedef
	* initialisation vs declaration of variables
	* the stack
	* scope
	* static variables, functions
	* pass by reference vs pass by value
	* pointers
	* * and & operators
	* arrays as pointers	
	* arrays of pointers



Lecture 4: Adventures in Memory
	* revising pointer basics?
	* the NULL pointer
	* the void pointer
	* casting
	* pointer arithmetic
	* segmentation faults
	* null termination
	* malloc and free
	* realloc, calloc
	* memset, memcmp
	* memory leaks
	* gdb
	* valgrind
	* Makefiles
	* function pointers

ASSIGNMENT 1: Emulated Shell + extra funcs

Lecture 5: Networking
	* client/server networking
	* byte ordering
	* sockaddrs
	* time functions
	* timeval, time_t
	* select
	* event-based programming



Lecture 6: Threads
	* threading concepts - locking etc.
	* pthreads

ASSIGNMENT 2: Double Linked List of Timers

Lecture 7: Kernel module programming

Lecture 8: Basic character device driver

ASSIGNMENT 3: Threaded I/O

Lecture 9: /proc/

Lecture 10: skbs, networking

Lecture 11: 

Lecture 12:

ASSIGNMENT 4: Extend Minix