Reading assignments

Week 1

Unix shell and commands

• Choose your tools well by Giovanni Asproni
• Learn to use a real editor by Diomidis Spinellis
• Basics of the Unix Philosophy (just a few pages), a subset of chapter 1 of The Art of Unix Programming, by Eric S. Raymond.
• The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix, by Warren Toomey – IEEE Spectrum 2011
• Interview with Doug McIlroy, by Rik Farrow – ;login 2016

Optional

• MINIX retrospective, by Andrew Tanenbaum, a professor who created MINIX, and whose student Linus Torvalds created Linux.

Week 2

shell and C programming

• CS50 coding style guidelines.
• The Unix tools are your friends by Diomidis Spinellis
• The professional programmer by Uncle Bob
• Know how to use command line tools by Carroll Robinson
• Comment only what the code cannot say by Kevlin Henney
• Lecture notes and any “lecture extras” associated with this week’s lectures.

Week 3

C programming, memory allocation, data structures

• CS50 coding style guidelines.
• Don’t Just Learn the Language, Understand its Culture, by Anders Norås
• Comments on Comments, Cal Evans
• Take Advantage of Code Analysis Tools, by Sarah Mount
• Lecture notes and any “lecture extras” associated with this week’s lectures.

Week 4

Web searching

• Skim Searching the Web, by Arasu, et.al. This paper provides a foundation for the TinySearchEngine assignments (Labs 4-6).
• Prevent errors, by Giles Colborne
• Use the right algorithm and data structure, by J.C. van Winkel
• Write small functions using examples, by Keith Braithwaite.
• The Linker Is not a Magical Program, by Walter Bright.
• Lecture notes and any “lecture extras” associated with this week’s lectures.

Week 5

Software design, testing, debugging

• Fighting Bugs: Remove, Retry, Replicate, and Rejuvenate, by Grottke and Trivedi.
• Code in the Language of the Domain, by Dan North.
• Don’t Be Afraid to Break Things, by Mike Lewis.
• Finish skimming Searching the Web, by Arasu, et al.
• Lecture notes and any “lecture extras” associated with this week’s lectures.

Week 6

Coding; TSE indexer

• Verbose Logging Will Disturb Your Sleep, by Johannes Brodwall
• Code Layout Matters, by Steve Freeman.
• Only the Code Tells the Truth, by Peter Sommerlad.
• Section 4 of Searching the Web, by Arasu, et al.
• Lecture notes and any “lecture extras” associated with this week’s lectures.

Week 7

Testing; Networking

• Berkeley sockets, on Wikipedia.
• Don’t ignore that error, by Pete Goodliffe.
• Keep the build clean, by Johannes Brodwall.
• Lecture notes and any “lecture extras” associated with this week’s lectures.