Systems programming and architecture

• Week 1
  • Week 1 outline
  • What are systems programming and architecture?
  • Introduction to unix
  • Terminals
  • Text Editors
  • The filesystem and paths
  • Configuring unix programs
  • Do nothing, successfully
  • Saying hello
  • Make a Makefile file to make make make files
  • Distributing a project as a tarball
  • Protecting headers from double inclusion
  • The steps of compilation
  • Some hints about week 1 CTFs
• Week 2
  • Getting started with assembly development
  • Calculation
  • Declarations, definitions, and numbers
  • Printing numbers
  • Scanning numbers
  • Reading and writing text
  • Exploring Width
• Week 3
  • Representing text
  • Representing floating-point numbers
• Week 4
  • An assembly program to add integers
  • An assembly program to divide integers
  • An assembly program to add floating-point numbers
  • An assembly program to divide floating-point numbers
  • File input and output
  • Allocating memory on the heap
• Week 5
  • Introduction to arrays
  • Arrays in C
  • Setting up gdb for convenient debugging
  • Debugging at the assembly level
• Week 6
  • How to write an assembly program
  • Integer division
  • How to work with floating-point numbers
• Week 7
  • Jumping around
  • The history of functions
  • Calling conventions and the stack
  • The x86-64 System V calling convention
  • Linkage in C
  • Calling C functions from assembly
  • Calling assembly functions from C
• Week 8
  • Booleans
  • Logical operations in C
  • Bitwise operations in C
  • Bit twiddling
  • Some bit twiddling examples
• Week 9
  • Structures
  • First-class citizens
  • Function pointers
  • Using structures for network and file formats
  • Using structures for polymorphism
  • Unions
• Week 10
  • Introduction
  • Program optimization
  • Miscellaneous low-level cool stuff

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