CS 450 Spring 2012

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• Course Policies - Includes instructor information and original planned schedule.
• Wireshark Labs - Due TBD
  • HTTP
  • DNS
• Homework 2 - Due Thursday 23 February at 1:30 P.M. via Blackboard
  • Linux man pages:
    • accept( )
    • bind( )
    • close( )
    • connect( )
    • gethostbyname( )
    • ip( )
    • listen( )
    • read( )
    • select( )
    • sleep( ), msleep( )
    • socket( )
    • write( )
• Homework 1 - Due Thursday 2 February at 11:59 P.M. via Blackboard
  • Wireshark Lab
  • Links & Notes related to NCurses:
    • http://linuxmanpages.com/man3/ncurses.3x.php
    • http://linux.die.net/man/3/ncurses
    • http://linux.die.net/man/3/curs_inopts
    • http://linux.die.net/man/3/getch
    • You need to compile with -lncurses
  • A link on how to do it using kbhit:
    • http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/63166-kbhit-linux.html
  • Some links on pthreads:
    • http://www.amparo.net/ce155/thread-ex.html #thread
    • http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialPosixThreads.html #thread
  • And at least one student used select:
    • http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.programmer/reading-stdin-with-SELECT
    • http://linuxmanpages.com/man2/select.2.php
• John Bell's Home page, including office information and links to:
  • John Bell's Spring 2012 schedule.
  • Programming Resources
  • Exam Philosophies and Samples
• TA's CS 450 Web Page
• Textbook Website

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