Teaching Assistant: Ruinan (Renie) Lu

Lab for CS 5641 meets in 177 MWAH every Wednesday at 17:00-17:50. Below are suggested review materials and things to try for each lab.

Week:

1. (9/4/2002) Review makefiles and the debugger gdb. Some useful web pages include:
   • Gary Shute's page for make
   • GNU's make manual
   • GNU's gdb manual
2. (9/11/2002) Use flex, the GNU automatic scanner generator. Try to use flex to do the following:
   • Count the number of capital and lower case letters in a file.
   • Separate a file into very simple tokens (separated by white space).
   The flex online manual can be found at http://www.gnu.org/manual/flex-2.5.4/html_mono/flex.html .
3. (9/18/2002) Work on the flex solution to your homework 1 question with the TA.

   Introduce yourself to your project teammate and work out work times and schedules.

   The TA will discuss project part 1 and some implementation suggestions.

4. (9/25/2002) Discuss project part 1 with TA
5. (10/2/2002) Discuss project part 2 with TA (and how it interacts with project part 1)