Advanced Software Development (Semester 1, 2012) Welcome to
Advanced Software Development Ever wanted to know how systems
work on the inside? Did you ever want to find out how Operating
Systems manage applications, communcation, memory, disks, and
other devices and hardware components? If your answer is yes to
any of these questions, then this is the right course for you.
We cover a selection of advanced systems programming topics such
as: - process synchronisation and inter-process communication, -
memory management, - file system interaction, and - system
calls. For this course, it is assumed that you have a fair
knowledge of the C, C++, or Objective-C programming languages,
as well as knowledge about memory addresses, pointers, and
memory management. It is also assumed that you know how to use
the command line and makefiles to compile programs as well as
the Subversion revision control system. The following slides
help you (re)familiarise yourself with these topics: