1. Overview

The goal of this assignment is for you, the student, to become acclimated to the programming environment we will be using for the exercises of this course. The lab consists of the following parts:

• Part 0: Learn basic UNIX commands and text editing

• Part 1: Get an ILAB account and log on

• Part 2: Set up your ILAB account

• Part 3: Familiarize yourself with the programming conventions used in this course

• Part 4: Compile a program using smk

• Part 5: Learn how to debug with gdb

All parts of this lab are required. (Note: you won't be able to access the file mentioned in the next paragraph until you log into your ILAB account in Part 1.)

All of the files needed for the lab can be found in the directory ~stanchen/e6884/lab0/. Before starting the lab, please read the file lab0.txt; this includes all of the questions you will have to answer while doing the lab. Questions about the lab can be posted on Courseworks (https://courseworks.columbia.edu/); a discussion topic will be created for each lab. Note: The hyperlinks in this document are enclosed in square brackets; you need an online version of this document to find out where they point to.