ECS 034: Software Development in UNIX & C++

Summary of Course Content

• The UNIX Environment
  • Review of basic UNIX environment concepts (e.g. processes/job control, file system, utilities, etc.)
  • Shell scripts
• Software Engineering & Tools
  • Debugging techniques using aids such as gdb/ddd.
  • Review of software engineering tools (e.g. make, git, etc.)
  • Unit Testing (e.g. Google Test)
  • Program development using third party libraries.
  • Other Tools (e.g. IDEs, ssh clients, linters, etc.).
• Programming in C
  • Basic syntax differences of C other languages, including Python
  • Data structures: single and multidimensional arrays; character strings; structs Use of system files such as library and “include” files
  • Pointers and dynamic memory allocation
  • Function pointers and inversion of control.
• Object-Oriented Programming in C++
  • Object-oriented design and implementation, polymorphism, operator overloading, encapsulation, derivation
  • Modular programming: programs composed of multiple C++ files and headers, overview of the
  • compilation/linking sequence
  • Pointer manipulation including dynamic memory allocation
  • Implementation of data structures (e.g. trees, graphs, etc.)
  • Templates and the Standard Template Library
  • Modern C++ (e.g. C++11, C++14, C++17, etc.)
• Analysis of Graph Algorithms
  • Critical path analysis, depth-first search, shortest path, minimum spanning tree, and network flow

Illustrative Reading

S. Lippman, J. Lajoie, and B. Moo, C++ Primer Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2013.

W. Shotts, The Linux Command Line 2nd Edition, No Starch Press, 2019.

GE3
Science & Engineering

Overlap
This course is a non-major analog of ECS 036B and will overlap significantly in concepts. ECS 34 introduces UNIX and analysis of graph algorithms, which is not covered in ECS 036B.