-- CSO Programming Assignments (Fall 2017) --

Assignments (Deadline is 10pm)

• L1: Some exercises in C (Due: 9/27)
• L2: Approximate document matching (Due: 10/15)
• L3: Understanding Assembly (Due: 10/29)
• L4: Writing a dynamic memory allocator (Due: 12/03)
• L5: Implement a thread-safe hash table (Due: 12/17)

Collaboration Policy

See here

Programming Environment

You are required to do all recitation exercises and labs on the class virtual machine (based on Ubuntu Linux). To get the virtual machine running on your personal desktop or laptop, take the following steps (note that recitation exercises and labs share the same programming environment, you only have to do this once).

• Step 1. Download the Virtualbox virtual machine monitor Version 5.1.26 (Please just use version 5.1.26 and not any other version.) Choose the right binary to download according to the type of operating system running on your laptop.
• Step 2. Download the class virtual machine image here. This file is fairly large (>2GB), so you need to be patient.
• Step 3. Install and launch Virtualbox. On the Virtualbox application toolbar, under the Menu item "File", click on "Import appliance...", and choose the previously downloaded lubuntu16.04.ova file when prompted.
• Step 4. After importing, start the virtual machine named "cso17-VirtualBox" and log in using the username and password given in Piazza). Change your password.

If you wish to use your own existing Linux-based desktop or laptop instead of the class virtual machine, that is fine. But note that we don't have the energy or expertise to debug any problems you might have.