COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CME 4421 SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING ELECTIVE 2 2 0 6

Offered By

Computer Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Computer Engineering

Course Objective

The main objective of this course is to introduce the details of operating systems and to teach how to write applications to extend and manage operating systems. This course focuses primarily on Windows and Unix operating systems, with a comparison.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Use Operating System APIs in high level programming languages
2   Learn to extend Operating system functions
3   Develop multithreaded application and use syncronization primitives
4   Develop new operating system
5   Develop applications with network programming

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

CME 3205 - OPERATING SYSTEMS

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Systems programming
2 Process, File, and I/O
3 Process, File, and I/O
4 Özel Special files, directories and Registry
5 Exception handling
6 Memory management and DLL
7 Signals, time and timers
8 Process management and thread planning
9 thread syncronization
10 Semaphores, advanced thread synchronization
11 Midterm Exam
12 Network Programming
13 Connetion oriented and connectionless communication
14 Recap

Recomended or Required Reading

Johnson M. Hart, Windows System Programming, 3rd Edition, Addison Wesley Professional, ISBN: 0-321-25619-0, 2006.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation/Lecturing and Programming Assignment

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 LAB LABORATORY
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + LAB * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + LAB * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Department of Computer Engineering
Dokuz Eylul University
Tinaztepe Buca, 35160 Izmir, Turkey
Tel: +90-232-3017408
Fax: +90-232-3017401

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 16 16
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Preparing assignments 3 16 48
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 160

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.15355
LO.25355
LO.35355
LO.4
LO.55355