cs341-illinois/coursebook

Open Source Introductory Systems Programming Textbook for the University of Illinois

Learning & listsTeX#wikibook#latex#awesome#c#linux

5.7 Breakout Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 28, 2026, 12:10 UTC.

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About the project

An open-source introductory systems programming textbook in C for the CS 341 course at the University of Illinois, covering Linux, POSIX, and memory. Built from LaTeX into PDF, Markdown, and HTML.

Useful for

Study systems programming in C chapter by chapter
Build the PDF version of the textbook from LaTeX sources
Contribute new chapters and code examples to the textbook

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Why it’s trending

66 stars so far today, about 138 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 138× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 11× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending today: #5, +265 stars.
About 18 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 2,218
Today: 66 · ≈ 138 by evening
Forks: 217
Issues and pull requests: 247
Watchers: 43
Language: TeX
Latest release: fa19 · August 18, 2019
Created: January 26, 2018
Last push: September 26, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 28, 2026GitHub Trending today: #5, +265 stars

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