cs341-illinois/coursebook
Open Source Introductory Systems Programming Textbook for the University of Illinois
About cs341-illinois/coursebook
cs341-illinois/coursebook is an open-source project on GitHub, mainly written in TeX. Open Source Introductory Systems Programming Textbook for the University of Illinois It currently holds 2,421 stars and 231 forks with 46 open issues, and was last pushed on 2026-09-26 (repository created 2018-01-26).
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Coursebook
Welcome to the systems programming coursebook! This repository houses a high-quality, open-source introductory systems programming textbook used by the CS 341: System Programming course at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The book assumes that you have taken a programming language course and are familiar with assembly instructions. All of the code and instruction will be in C, as it is the de-facto language of the Linux Kernel.
The Coursebook is an aim to standardize and build upon Angrave's original wikibook experiment.
The most recent version of the coursebook as a single pdf is here: main.pdf.
Overview
Goals
- Improve the quality and rigour of the original wikibook while maintaining openness.
- Improve the factualness by including citations, footnotes, extended reading, and a glossary.
- Have exports in the form of pdf, markdown, and html.
- Automagically build so writers can focus on writing.
Contributing, Building, and Structure
Read CONTRIBUTING.md
Credit Where Credit is Due
- Title Page Idea Inspiration - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/85904/showcase-of-beautiful-title-page-done-in-tex
- Duck Image Inspiration - https://pixabay.com/photos/toy-bath-rubber-duck-studio-1474138/
- Chapter Style Inspiration - https://texblog.org/2012/07/03/fancy-latex-chapter-styles/
- PDF Image Inspiration - https://pixabay.com/illustrations/pdf-miniature-file-icon-2127829/