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====== CSE2031 Software Tools  ======

===== Unofficial Final Grades =====
Unofficial final grades are now posted on ePost and you can check them [[https://www.cse.yorku.ca/~roumani/ePost/server/ep.cgi?year=2013-14&term=S&course=2031|here]].

I consider that all students who wanted to see their work met me today. 

Thank you for a good term and good luck with your future enterprises. 

===== Office Hours =====
I will be in the office (LAS 2013) on Monday Aug. 11, 2014 12-3pm in case you want to discuss your grades or see final. 

**Please note that this will be the last chance to do that as on Tuesday I will send your final grades to the office.**

===== Final Exam Marks =====
Final is marked and you can see your marks  [[https://www.cse.yorku.ca/~roumani/ePost/server/ep.cgi?year=2013-14&term=S&course=2031|here]]

Your unofficial final grades will be posted on Monday.

===== Final Exam =====
Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM in LSB 106

===== A friendly remainder =====
Make sure that you have reviewed the following topics before the test:
  * understanding C (that includes pointers, arguments passed by value vs. by pointer)
  * pre-compiler directives (''#define'' and others)
  * static and extern - usage and consequences
  * memory management (allocation, re- and de-allocation)
  * linked-list and btree structures
  * Unordered List Item


  * basic UNIX tools (cd, ls, cp, mv, cut, wc, grep, awk) and their basic flags (switches)
  * permissions and use of chmod
  * regular expressions in grep and awk
  * ''&&'' and ''||'' operators
  * predefined variables in sh (''$$'', ''$#'', ''$*'' etc.)
  * predefined variables in awk (''FS'', ''NR'', etc.)


===== Last office hours =====
If you have questions before the final test, 
I will be at York on **Tuesday noon-3pm in LAS2013**.

===== Some sample Awk posted =====
Check [[awk|this page]] for some sample AWK questions

===== Labtest 2 Marks are posted  =====
I have posted labtest2 marks [[https://www.cse.yorku.ca/~roumani/ePost/server/ep.cgi?year=2013-14&term=S&course=2031|in the usual place ]].

===== NEWS  =====

Office hours will be held on Monday July 21, at between 1pm and 3pm. You can meet me in LAS 2013. 

Solutions to lab 11 are now posted

===== Description  =====

This course introduces software tools that are used for building applications and in the software development process. Students will be exposed to the layers between a programming language, the operating system, and the CPU. The course covers the following topics:
  * ANSI-C (stdio, pointers, memory management, overview of ANSI-C libraries)

  * Shell programming under Unix (Bourne shell, filters and pipes)

All the above topics will be applied in practical programming assignments.
Prerequisite: EECS 1030 3.0 with a grade of C+ or better (general 2nd-year prerequisite)

===== Textbooks =====

The following is the official text for the course. It is available in the bookstore:
Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M., //The C Programming Language//, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, ISBN 013110362-8, 1988.

===== Meetings =====
=== Lectures ===

    * **Tuesday** 18:00-20:00, LSB 106

=== Lab ===

    * Section A: **Tuesday** 16:00-18:00, LAS1006 
    * Section B: **Wednesday** 17:00-19:00, LAS1006