cs146a Tutorial 1: C and TCP Client

When : Thursday 2009-09-17 from 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Where : Volen 101

This tutorial is not online; this page has the outline of what we will cover when we meet.

Topics

C refresher
- variables, assignment, types
- malloc, free
- pointers, buffers, strings
Compiling on Linux
- gcc
- Make
Programming with sockets part 1: being a client
- Initiating a connection with a server
- Reading from and writing to a socket

Who should attend

You should definitely attend if you are not confident with C programming or if you need a refresher on compiling and running a C program on Linux. You will also learn something if you are familiar with C but have not programmed with sockets and/or are unfamiliar with the file descriptor abstraction. You are of course welcome even if you feel confident with these skills.

What about Tutorial 2?

Depending on need and interest, we will schedule a second tutorial to help with server-side socket programming and perhaps some more tips for C programming.