Introduction to system-level programming with fundamental OS concepts, procedures, primitive data types, user-defined types. Topics may include process management, memory management, process coordination and synchronization, inter-process communication, file systems, networking, pointers, heap and stack memory management, and system/library calls. Precludes additional credit for COMP 1002, COMP 1402, COMP 2401, SYSC 1102 and ECOR 1606. Prerequisite(s): one of COMP 1006, COMP 1406 or SYSC 2004.Lectures three hours a week, tutorial one and a half hours a week.
