Linux and C

The current version of the course notes for CISC 220 is available at http://hdl.handle.net/1974/22632. Please do not place it on any other website or repository; we would like people always to retrieve it from the standard location so we can get statistics on usage.

There are many books on Linux and C, but for the purposes of a 2nd-year University-level course, most of them are either too superficial or too long and detailed. These course notes are a middle ground: short enough for students to read in their entirety as part of a 1-semester course, and long enough to explain the basic concepts thoroughly.

The only C currently covered in the most recent version of the notes is characterisic errors in C programming, and programming for Linux / UNIX / POSIX processes (fork, exec, signals, and pipes). For all else, consult one of the many books on C, particularly the standard:

The C Programming Language 2nd edition, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

Change history:

1.0 (July 2014) Initial version
1.4 (September 2016) add section on characteristic C errors
1.5 (November 2016) switch to Palatino fonts from Computer Modern

"CISC 220 Course Notes: Linux and C" by David Alex Lamb is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.