outline.txt

tinyos-2.x.rar

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:18 -0700, Kristin Wright wrote:
> On 11/30/05, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > I am on the hook for writing a short book on nesC programming for
> > xbow, focusing on wiring. I think I could come up with a basic
> > tutorial outline, but can't do more than that.
> 
> Is the tutorial outline something you can commit to? If so, what
> timeframe are you thinking?
> -kw

but it's a high level one. Each bullet point should have an exercise to
demonstate it. This is pretty exhaustive. We could do something
simpler/shorter. I'm sure I must have missed something, so everyone feel
free to chip in.

Tutorial I: Interfaces and Configurations (Kristin)
  - Components interact through well-defined interfaces.
  - Component signatures, provides and uses
  - Interface descriptions
  - Wiring two components together
  - Exporting a wiring

Tutorial II: Modules (Kristin)
  - Executable logic.
  - Events vs. commands.
  - Defaults.
  - Storage and ownership.
   
Tutorial III: An Application (Kristin)
  - Boot.booted()
  - Init()
  - Twiddling the LEDs.
  - Starting services/components
  - Timers.
  - Tasks to defer processing.

Tutorial IV: Acquiring Data (Kristin)
  - Sampling a sensor.
  - Periodically sampling the sensors and twiddling the LEDs.
  - Handling error conditions.

Tutorial V: Communication (Prabal)
  - Message buffers.
  - Sending a buffer.
  - Receiving a buffer: swapping vs. copying.
  - Making a send queue.
  - Getting packet metadata (Packet, AMPacket interfaces).

Tutorial VI: Storage (Kristin)
  - Storing small things: nodeID.
  - Storing a big chunk of things: data from another node (generated,
e.g., with Random), reliable protocol.xa
  - Storing a stream: logging.

Tutorial VII: Power management (Vlado)
  - Turning components on/off.
  - Resource managers and power policies.

Tutorial VIII: Concurrency (Kristin)
  - Tasks, revisited.
  - Async code vs. sync code (until now all has been sync)
  - Scheduler.

Tutorial IX: Platforms (PhilB)
  - chips vs. platforms
  - Telescoping abstractions
  - Sensorboards

Tutorial X: TOSSIM (PhilL)