System programmers are "hackers" in the good sense of the word:
Programmers who understand computer and software systems on a variety
of levels. They are the people managers and other programmers turn to
when they need to implement, maintain, or improve critically-important
systems or solve especially tricky software problems.

This course is intended to develop the skills system programmers need
to write both system software and applications that make use of system
capabilities. It also provides experience in the construction of
small-to-medium scale, single-developer software systems.