Linux Programming Tools Course Outline

Linux Programming Tools

• SESSION 1: Introduction
  • Course Objectives
  • Prerequisites
  • Procedures

• SESSION 2: Bash
  • Shells
  • Prompt and Special Characters
  • Redirection and Pipes
  • Aliases and Environmental Variables
  • Substitution and Expressions
  • Creating and Executing Scripts
  • Conditionals
  • Loops
  • Functions

• SESSION 3: Compilers
  • GCC and Optimizations
  • Major Options
  • Preprocessor
  • Other Languages

• SESSION 4: Libraries
  • From libc5 to glibc
  • Static Libraries
  • Shared Libraries
  • Linking Libraries

• SESSION 5: Make
  • Makefiles for simple applications
  • More complicated rules
  • Built-in rules
  • Making libraries
  • Building large projects

• SESSION 6: Version Control
  • Revision Control System (RCS)
  • Concurrent Control System (CVS)

• SESSION 7: Debugging
  • gdb (xxgdb, ddd)
  • Electric Fence
  • gprof

LINUX PROGRAMMING TOOLS