CS208 Introduction to Computer Systems
Monday, 4 March 2024

+ Final exam
- will be posted later today
- takehome
    - open internet
    - ask me any questions you want
    - ask Kaitlyn general topic questions
        not specific exam questions
    - don't talk to others

+ What could be next?
- Closer to the hardware
    - digital logic
    - computer architecture
    - hardware design
    - memory hierarchies, including caches
    - device drivers
    - ...
- Operating systems
    - file systems
    - virtual memory
    - concurrency & synchronization
    - studying & modifying actual OS code
    - real-time systems
    - ...
- Networks
    - clients & servers
    - protocols & protocol suites
    - ...
- Databases
    - db design
    - query languages
    - db algorithms & data structures
    - ...
- Security
    - reverse engineering
    - malware analysis
    - exploit development
    - authentication
    - authorization
    - encryption
    - ...
- Parallel & distributed systems
    - distributed algorithms
    - parallel algorithms
    - parallel programming
    - threaded programming
    - inter-process communication
    - ...
- Compilers
- ...

+ Fun with bash
- *
- environment variables
- PATH
- which, which -a
- builtins

+ A little bit of networking

+ getting ssh to work without typing a password every time
    (VS Code)

+ Virtual memory
- My biggest lie so far...