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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

Beginning computing students often finish the introduction to programming course without having had exposure to various system tools, without knowing how to optimize program performance and without understanding how programs interact with the larger computer system.Adam Hoover's System Programming with C and Unix introduces students to commonly used system tools (libraries, debuggers, system calls, shells and scripting languages) and then explains how to utilize these tools to optimize program development. The text also examines lower level dat... MORE

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
What is System Programming?	p. 1
The Three Tools	p. 5
How to Debug	p. 20
Program Development	p. 31
Review of C	p. 35
Questions and Exercises	p. 41
Bits, Bytes, and Data Types	p. 45
Bit Models	p. 45
Bitwise Operations	p. 57
Memor... MOREy Map	p. 65
Questions and Exercises	p. 68
Arrays and Strings	p. 73
Arrays	p. 74
Strings	p. 79
String Library Functions	p. 83
Command Line Arguments	p. 92
Questions and Exercises	p. 94
Pointers and Structures	p. 103
Pointers	p. 103
Using Pointers	p. 108
Structures	p. 118
Using Structures	p. 121
Questions and Exercises	p. 127
Input/Output	p. 135
Streams	p. 136
Buffers	p. 143
Pipes	p. 145
Files	p. 153
Devices	p. 161
Questions and Exercises	p. 164
Program Management	p. 171
Program Building	p. 172
Code Organization	p. 185
Program Distribution Methods	p. 201
Questions and Exercises	p. 204
System Calls	p. 213
Families of Operations	p. 214
Libraries and System Calls	p. 215
Process System Calls	p. 217
Signal System Calls	p. 229
Socket System Calls	p. 236
Questions and Exercises	p. 251
Libraries	p. 255
Using a Library	p. 256
Purpose of Libraries	p. 261
The C Standard Library	p. 263
The Curses Library	p. 265
The X Library	p. 275
Making a Library	p. 288
Library Pitfalls	p. 291
Questions and Exercises	p. 292
Scripting Languages	p. 299
Using Scripting Languages	p. 301
Shell Scripting	p. 305
Perl	p. 320
MATLAB	p. 333
Discussion	p. 347
Questions and Exercises	p. 348
ASCII Table	p. 351
Common Shell Commands	p. 355
System Programs	p. 357
Index	p. 361
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Adam W. Hoover received a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 1992, a M.S. in Computer Engineering in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering in 1996, all from the University of South Florida. In 1996, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego, as an Assistant Project Scientist and Visiting Lecturer. In 1998, he received the department's Honorary Graduate Teaching Award. In 1999, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Clemson University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Dr. Hoover is an active Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and co-founder of EyeDx, a company dedicated to preventative screening of children's vision. Dr. Hoover's research interests are in the area of intelligent systems, with an emphasis on tracking, embedded systems, and medical informatics.

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