======Introduction======
My name is John Rine. I have four children: Erica, David, Gretchen, and Nathan. I also have three four grandchildren: Victor jr., Lilianna, Daniela, and Gabriel!
On August 6, 2009, the anniversary of the dropping of the A bomb on Hiroshima, I was separated from the company where I worked for 12 years. Since I was unemployed, I found that I qualified for educational benefits and enrolled for the Fall semester 2009 at Corning Community College. In December 2010, I graduated with an A.A.S. in Electrical Technology-Electronics and a A.S. in LAS General Studies program each with a 3.85 accumulated GPA. At the same time I have been enrolled in the IT-HPC and Computer Science programs. Since graduating from the Electrical Technology program, however, I have been seeking employment as being unemployed has taken a heavy toll on my family's financial situation. On July 15, 2011, I was hired as a Process Technician at Corning, Incorporated's Sullivan Park Research and Development facility. This semester will be interesting. I will be employed full time and attempt a full course load. I can, however, see the light at the end of the tunnel as this is my last semester. If I am successful, I will graduate with an A.A.S. in IT-HPC and a A.S. in Computer Science.
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Data Structures Topics\\
http://lab46.corning-cc.edu/haas/fall2011/data\\
The following is a list of the major topics being covered in this course:\\
* Version Control (checkout, commit, update, add, log)
* Pointers (address of, assignment, dereferencing)
* arrays, pointer arithmetic
* pointers to pointers
* null pointers
* void pointers
* function pointers
* Static allocation vs. Dynamic allocation
* Memory allocation (malloc(), new)
* Memory De-allocation (free(), delete)
* structures
* structure pointer
* Linked Lists
* Doubly Linked Lists
* Stacks (array-based, linked-list based)
* Pushing
* Popping
* Top
* Overflow condition (where applicable?)
* Underflow condition
* LIFO or FIFO?
* Queues (array-based, linked-list based)
* Enqueuing
* Dequeuing
* Overrun and Underrun conditions
* Computational Complexity
* Big-O, Theta, bounds
* Sorting Algorithms
* Selection sort algorithm
* Bubble sort algorithm
* Insert sort algorithm
* Quick sort algorithm
* Merge sort algorithm
* Binary Search algorithm
* Trees, Binary Trees (nodes, parents, children)
* insertion
* removal
* searching
* traversal (pre-order, post-order, in-order)
* Graphs
* Hash Tables (keys, collisions)
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System Programming Topics\\
http://lab46.corning-cc.edu/haas/fall2011/sysprog\\
The following is a list of the major topics being covered in this course:\\
* UNIX Systems Programming
* User space
* Kernel, Kernel space
* Users, Files, and the Manual
* File Access (open, read, write, lseek, close)
* File descriptors
* Buffering
* System Calls
* Directories and File Properties
* File Types and File Properties
* Bit Sets and Bit Masks
* User IDs, Group IDs
* Focus on File Systems
* Filesystem Structure; inodes and data blocks
* Directories
* Links
* Connection Control
* Device files
* Race conditions
* Atomic Operations
* Streams
* Terminal Control and Signals
* Blocking vs. Non-Blocking
* Signals
* Event-Driven Programming
* Alarms, Interval Timers
* Reentrant code, critical sections
* Asynchronous input
* Processes and Programs
* UNIX process model, processes
* Parent/Child processes
* Shell Variables and the Environment
* I/O Redirection and Pipes
* I/O Redirection
* Pipes
* Servers and Sockets
* Client/Server model
* Coroutines
* Connections and Protocols
* Server sockets
* Client sockets
* Zombies
* Programming with Datagrams
* TCP vs. UDP
* Distributed Systems
* UNIX domain sockets
* Threads
* Multithreading
* Creating/destroying threads
* Sharing data between threads
* Synchronizing data
* Inter Process Communication
* Named pipes
* Shared memory
* File locks
* Semaphores
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HPC I Experience Topics\\
http://lab46.corning-cc.edu/haas/fall2011/hpc1\\
The following is a list of the major topics being covered in this course:
* lab operations
* maintenance X
* logging X
* accessibility
* upgrades X
* backups X
* documentation X
* resource usability
* remote administration
* on-site administration
* security - internal X
* log analysis
* troubleshooting X
* security - external