Details

Faculty	Faculty of Science and Medicine
Domain	Computer Science
Code	UE-SIN.02020
Languages	English
Type of lesson	Lecture Project Exercise
Level	Bachelor
Semester	SS-2025

Title

French	Programmation proche du système
German	Systemnahe Programmierung
English	Systems-oriented programming

Schedules and rooms

Summary schedule	Friday 13:15 - 17:00, Hebdomadaire, PER 21, Room C140 (Spring semester)
Struct. of the schedule	2+2h par semaine durant 14 semaines
Contact's hours	56

Teaching

Responsibles	Cudré-Mauroux Philippe
Teachers	Cudré-Mauroux Philippe Luggen Michael
Description	Introduction to a basic system programming language (C): Constants, variables and basic types. Expressions, statements and control structures. Advanced types: pointers, arrays and structures. Functions, procedures, argument passing modes, scoping (local/global, private/public, and volatile/permanent variables). Introduction to system programming: memory model including static and dynamic memory allocation. Function call, execution stack and abstract syntax trees (AST) diagrams. ADT diagrams. Dynamic memory allocation (malloc, free). Process and thread models, including program counter (pc) and interrupts. Abstract data types: stack, queue, (double) linked list, token list, priority list and binary tree. Introduction to the Unix programming environment: command line, including pipe and input/output redirection. File system and privileges, including hard and symbolic links. Regular expression and Unix variables. Bash shell scripts, make, gdb debugger and performance tools. Secure remote access.
Training objectives	The student will first develop the ability to read C code, use Unix commands and test simple C programs. Then they will learn to write, debug and test C programs including simple concurrent programs, and use more advanced Unix tools (make, gdb debugger, Bash shell scripts). Finally they will learn to specify classical abstract data types in C.
Condition of access	Registration for all teaching units AND exams is mandatory. Please take note of the registration deadlines of the faculty of science and medecine.  If you have difficulties to register for the course over the student portal send an e-mail to stephanie.fasel@unifr.ch mentionning your full name, SIUS number, course title and code.
Comments	Les unités d’enseignement se composent généralement de deux heures de cours et deux heures d’exercices par semaine. Nous vous prions de bien vouloir vous conformer aux délais d’inscriptions aux épreuves de la Faculté des sciences et de médecine.
Softskills	No
Off field	No
BeNeFri	Yes
Mobility	Yes
UniPop	No

Written exam - SS-2025, Session d'été 2025

Assessments methods	By rating
Descriptions of Exams	Selon modalité A de l'annexe du plan d'études en informatique
Comment	Closed book exam