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Under the Covers : The Secret Life of Software

HOW TO READ THIS BOOK

How to read this book

THE UNIX DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

1. Operating Systems and UNIX
2. What is a Terminal and why do we still use them?
3. Organizing and Managing Information as a Tree of Files and Directories
4. The Shell - Part I: Having an ASCII conversation with the OS
5. The Shell - Part II: Some UNIX details
6. Editors
7. Processes
8. IDEs
9. Make
10. Intro to Git
11. Git

THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: THE VON NEUMMAN ARCHITECTURE AND ASSEMBLY PROGRAMMING

12. Introduction: Assembly Programming
13. The von Neumann Architecture
14. Executables and Processes
15. Machine Debuggers & Open Process Surgery
16. Lets write some assembly code
17. Representing information - Preliminaries: Bits, Bytes and Notation
18. Information Representation - Native Types
19. Assembly : Program Anatomy I
20. Program Anatomy II : Functions
21. Program Anatomy III : Code as Data
22. Program Anatomy IV: The Tree of Bytes and Data Structures
23. Assembly using the OS

INTO THE LIGHT: C PROGRAMMING

24. Introduction

COURSE SPECIFIC MATERIAL

25. BU CS210 Overview

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By Jonathan Appavoo

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