# angrave/SystemProgramming

Angrave's Crowd-Sourced System Programming Book used at UIUC

Repository: https://github.com/angrave/SystemProgramming
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/systemprogramming
Homepage: https://github.com/angrave/SystemProgramming/wiki
License Family: other
Last push: 2020-01-14T21:41:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
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- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5752, forks 770 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:29.047361+00:00)

## What it is
A crowd-sourced wiki-based textbook on system programming, originally built for UIUC's CS241/CS341 course. It covers C programming, processes, forking, threads, synchronization, memory, and other operating-systems-level topics.

## Use cases
- learn system programming from scratch
- study C programming for operating systems
- prepare for a systems programming course
- understand fork, exec, and processes
- learn pthreads and synchronization
- review for a systems programming interview
- learn debugging with gdb and valgrind

## When to choose
- you want a free, comprehensive introduction to systems programming in C
- you are taking or teaching a university systems course
- you prefer wiki-style reference material with worked examples

## When to avoid
- you need a software tool or library rather than educational material
- you need up-to-date content on modern OS features, as the wiki was mainly maintained 2014-2018
- you want a formally published or peer-reviewed textbook

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: operating-systems, tutorials, education, programming-languages
- platform: c, cross-platform
- tags: textbook, wiki-book, system-programming, c-programming, university-course, processes, threads, concurrency, linux

## Member repositories
- angrave/SystemProgramming (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:29.047361+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:53:17.875166+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/angrave/SystemProgramming (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:29.047361+00:00, sha a4885da36bd9)
  - homepage: https://github.com/angrave/SystemProgramming/wiki (fetched 2026-08-29T08:48:53.129334+00:00, sha 3d9b4371d06d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.