Introduction

My name is John Rine. I have four children: Erica, David, Gretchen, and Nathan. I also have <html><strike style='color:red'>three</strike> four </html> grandchildren: Victor jr., Lilianna, Daniela, and <html> Gabriel</html>!

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.
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)

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

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