Lectures related to Systems programming

Transactions: Concepts and Implementations

Explores the significance and challenges of transactions, emphasizing ACID properties and the practical implications of using transactional memory for concurrency control.

Concurrency and Parallelism: Queue

Explores thread safety, synchronization, and concurrent collections in Scala, focusing on a lock-free concurrent queue implementation.

Palindrome: Assembly Program for Detecting Palindromes

Covers the assembly programming exercise of detecting palindrome binary numbers.

Pointers and Arrays: Understanding sizeof in C

Explains the sizeof operator in C, focusing on its use with pointers and arrays, and highlights common pitfalls and errors in its application.

Handling Command Line Arguments in C: Practical Examples

Covers the handling of command line arguments in C programming with practical examples and structured approaches.

Linker and Loader: Understanding Compilation in C

Explains the roles of linker and loader in C programming, focusing on separate compilation and the creation of executable files.

Command Line Arguments in C: Understanding argc and argv

Explains command line arguments in C, focusing on the main function prototypes and how to use argc and argv.

Strings in C: Initialization and Memory Management

Covers the representation and management of strings in C, highlighting key differences from other programming languages.

Dynamic Arrays in C: Flexible Array Members

Covers flexible array members in C, focusing on dynamic memory allocation and practical applications in system programming.

Memory Management: Part I

Covers memory management concepts such as block headers, external fragmentation, reference counting, and mark & sweep garbage collection.

Dynamic Memory Management: Using Realloc in C

Explains dynamic memory allocation in C, focusing on the realloc function and its implications for managing memory effectively.

Pointer Arithmetic: Understanding Memory Management in C

Explains pointer arithmetic in C, focusing on memory manipulation and common pitfalls.

File Input/Output in C: Managing Files and Streams

Explains file input and output in C, covering file handling, modes, and error management.

Pointers in C: Understanding Memory Addresses and Variables

Explains pointers in C, focusing on their role as variables that store memory addresses and the importance of understanding memory management.

Memory Management: Dynamic Allocation and Deallocation

Covers dynamic memory management, focusing on allocation and deallocation practices in programming.

Datalog Evaluation with Multi-Stage Programming

Explores Datalog evaluation, DSL embedding, semantics, fixpoint algorithms, and multi-stage programming.