CS208 Introduction to Computer Systems
Friday, 5 January 2024

+ Reading the textbook

+ Questions
- What's going on with Makefile?
- Other?

+ How I get started on an assignment like select-column
- Tiny steps, testing as I go
- ...

+ character_counter.c
- how do you open a file? close a file?
- how do you read one char from a file?
- how can you tell if you have come to the end of the file?
- how can you tell if you have come to the end of a line?
- what other errors can happen, and what should you do about them?

+ output.c
- DIS Section 2.8
- read it and perform the experiments in the comment at the top
- what are stdout and stderr?
- what does > do?
- what does 2> do?
- what does &> do?

+ strings.c
- For each "Game N", write down the lessons
about null-terminated char strings that the
Game is trying to teach