TA Resources

CMSC 212 - Introduction to Low-Level Programming Concepts

Spring 2009

Type vimtutor on the linux grace machines to get the already-installed tutorial for vi/vim, a text editor.
VI in 10 minutes - from unix-manuals.com

Get it below: (Now with more pointers!)

C-Jump - A Board Game Teaching C
factor - prime factorization on the command line:
foreach - looping in the tcsh shell (default shell):
for - looping in the bash shell:
longest_line.c: Some C code to compute statistics about the longest line of a file. It uses some features of C not yet covered in class, so don't worry if the code itself looks a little confusing.

Compile it the normal way (call it longest_line.x or longest_line), and run it with some files as arguments. To download it directly to your grace account, try using the wget command on the unformatted version below.
View the formatted source code (with color!) or the unformatted version.
To create a sequence, use the seq command:
Combining looping and seq (example given in tcsh) using the backtick operators (``):
Coloring your prompt. This one's a little messy, so just copy the (admittedly obscure) content into your ~/.cshrc.mine file, and leave it be...

View the additions to .cshrc.mine.
check_malloc(): A helper function to allocate some memory, and also check if the allocation was successful. This will become useful especially when searching for memory leaks.

View the source code here.

CMSC 424 - Database Design

Fall 2007