SFT4100

Systems programming I

A Blucher

6 points
* 4 hours per week
* Second semester
* Caulfield
* Prerequisite: SFT3000 or equivalent recommended

Synopsis Software architecture, program communication with system services, low-level programming language concepts, low-level performance and tuning, interlanguage communication, debugging complex systems, programming of concurrent processes.

Assessment Written: 40%
* Practical work: 60%

Recommended texts

Ellis M A and Stroustrup B The annotated C++ reference manual Addison-Wesley, 1991
Lippman S B C++ primer 2nd edn, Addison-Wesley, 1991
Spuler D A C++ and C debugging, testing and reliability Prentice-Hall, 1994