Several students have volunteered to help prepare background materials with me. These are the topics that we've discussed so far: Rajika Tandon: Set up Linux environment and tools, e.g., Eclipse, Gcc, Java, ... Grishma Kotecha: Posix Threads, download and develop getting started examples with pthreads library. Sankar Sundarum: Cross-Platform GUIs, download, install, and develop examples using, wxWidgets, Gnome, ... Santosh Naidu: C++ Monitor class for Linux and Windows Karthik Rajakumar: Reader/Writer toggle class for Linux and Windows, as well as other synchronizing constructs. Supreeth Murthy: Transforming source code to web pages using XSLT on windows and linux. Also, setting up small sites using Apache/Tomcat or JBoss and mySQL. Other topics common to both platforms and not assigned:
C++ classes to manage shared memory, socket classes, http classes (client and listener), ... Note that many of these projects could easily be expanded into interesting Master's Projects.