Update:

Registration is closed on this course, for details check the site here

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Linux System Programming Course as one of eglug, activities in Alexandria the announcement is now in the group site the course contents are as follows:

I) C concepts and syntax:

• Concepts of structural programming, Makefiles, editors, environments.
• Typing, Declaration, Operators, Precedence and some data storage concepts.
• Conditionals and Loops
• Functions, structures, unions, and abstraction-encapsulation
• Pointers and arrays, memory allocation - stack vs. heap.
• Function Pointers, Casting, void * - Mechanism vs Policy.
• Debugging (this is not necessarily here, may be earlier if it's a better fit)
• Very brief introduction to the basic data structures: lists, trees, hash tables.

II) C++ and Object-oriented programming:

• Classes
• Inheritance
• Operator overloading
• Polymorphism
• Templates and introductory meta-programming
• The STL library
• Some design patterns and programming techniques

III) Application system programming concepts (the focus will be on Linux but the concepts and many of the prototypes are applicable throughout POSIX):

• User-space, process and address space concepts, shared objects and code loading.
• Threading (pthreads)
• IPC using POSIX and SYSV
• File operations and System calls
• Sockets

IV) Driver/Kernel Module programming concepts (Linux only, but the concepts do carry through other OSes):

• Mechanism vs. Policy and the C implementation of interfaces/strategy pattern, Makefiles
• File ops - synchronous vs asynchronus, calls, context
• Debugging
• Mutual exclusion
• Interrupts and tasklets
• Memory concepts, allocation, mapping
• Introduction to subsystems and the driver model, sysfs/procfs