units

FIT3042

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 22 December 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Information Technology
OfferedClayton First semester 2015 (Day)
Malaysia First semester 2015 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with an introduction to UNIX tools for managing processes; searching, editing and modifying files and data streams; and command interpreters and shell scripts. In addition, students will learn about a typical system call interface and its use for systems programming in a language like C.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. describe the relationship between Unix, Unix shells, and C language;
  2. write programs using C's dynamic memory allocation to create standard container structures;
  3. construct programs in C that use system calls to interact with the underlying operating environment;
  4. use the Make utility to build programs written in C;
  5. construct shell scripts that use standard POSIX filters in pipelines to achieve common tasks;
  6. use regular expressions to perform text-processing tasks in shell and Perl on unstructured and semi-structured text;
  7. build Perl scripts using Perl features such as hashes and references.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Two hours of lectures
  • One 2-hour laboratory

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 2-3 hours of personal study per one hour of contact time in order to satisfy the reading and assignment expectations.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Peter Tischer

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Computational science
Software engineering
Systems development

Prerequisites

One of FIT1008, FIT1015, FIT2085, CSE1303

Prohibitions

CSE2391, CSE3391

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit3042