Basic Information
This course serves as the introduction to operating systems concepts, such as process management, synchronization, system calls, memory management, file systems, kernels, and drivers.
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| Date | Suggested Readings | Session Links and Announcements | Exercises and Projects |
| 1/14 |
Chapter 1.1 -1.9 | Session One - Introduction and History | Watch short video 1, video 2, video 3 before next time. (Video ppt notes) |
| 1/16 | Section 15.1 | Lab 0 Work Day | Lab 0 (do this first) -- due in class on 1/23, may not be late, can be done in partners Project 0 (do this second) -- due on 1/23 at 11:59pm on eLearning, must be done individually (may be up to 2 days late) |
| 1/18 | Lab 0 Work Day | Extra Credit - Want more of a challenge? | |
| 1/21 | No Class | ||
| 1/23 | Section 3.1 | Session Two - Basics of Processes and Threads | Exercise #1 (due 1/30) [over Sessions 1-2] Answers |
| 1/25 | Chapter 2.1 and 2.10 | Session Three - Boot Process | |
| 1/28 | Section 3.3 | Session Four [programming] - Shell Parsing and Exec example shell - copy this executable to the Linux server and run it to see how the shell should work |
Project 1 Specification Project 1 Partners must be picked by tonight - send me an email with both your names (or just your name if you intend to work alone) |
| 1/30 | Work Day and Answer Questions about Project 1 | Exercise #2 (due 2/8) [Sessions 3-5] Answers |
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| 2/1 | Chapter 6.1 - 6.3 | Session Five - CPU Scheduling | |
| 2/4 | Section 4.1 | Session Six - Cooperating Threads and Synchronization Too Much Milk presentation |
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| 2/6 | Session Seven [programming] - cd command and shell variables | Project 1 First Half Due (submit on eLearning by 11:59:59pm) | |
| 2/8 | Sections 5.1-5.2 | Session Eight - Implementing Mutual Exclusion | Exercise #3 (due 2/15) [Session 6-9] Answers |
| 2/11 | Sections 5.3-5.4 | Session Nine - Semaphores and Bounded Buffer | |
| 2/13 | Work Day and Answer Project Questions | Project 1 due at 11:59:59pm | |
| 2/15 | Sections 5.5-5.9 | Session Ten - More on Semaphores | |
| 2/18 | Exam 1 Review | ||
| 2/20 | Snow Day, work on installing VMWare | ||
| 2/22 | Exam 1 | Exam 1 | |
| 2/25 | Session Eleven [configuration] - Intro to Linux Kernels | Project 2 Specification | |
| 2/27 | Gone to SIGCSE - official class does not meet Direct link to video |
Work Day Send me questions and I will send video answers |
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| 3/1 | Gone to SIGCSE - official class does not meet Direct link to video |
Session Twelve - Monitors, Condition Variables, Readers-Writers | Exercise #4 (due 3/13 in class) [Session 13-14] Answers |
| 3/4 | Session Thirteen - Deadlocks | ||
| 3/6 | Section 18.3 | Session Fourteen [programming] - Intro to Kernel Modules and /proc | |
| 3/8 | Chapter 7 | No class due to professor sickness. Finish Project 2 and look at class announcement to start project 3 | |
| 3/11 | Chapter 7 | Session Fifteen [programming] - Project 3 | Project 3 Specification (due 3/28 at 11:59pm on eLearning) Project3-README.docx |
| 3/13 | Continue previous session, answer questions | ||
| 3/15 | Sections 8.1-8.6 | Session Seventeen - Concurrency Conclusion, Memory Protection | |
| 3/25 | Session Eighteen - Address Translation | Exercise #5 (due 4/1) [Sessions 18-19] Answers |
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| 3/27 | Finish previous session | ||
| 3/29 | Session Nineteen - Caching and TLBs | ||
| 4/1 | Session Twenty - Exam 2 Review | ||
| 4/3 | Exam 2 | Exam 2 | |
| 4/5 | Sections 9.1-9.6 | Session Twenty One - Virtual Memory | Exercise #6 (due 4/12) [Sessions 21-22] Answers |
| 4/8 | Sections 10.1-10.4, 13.1-13.3.2 | Session Twenty Two - Device Management and Disk Management | |
| 4/10 | Session Twenty Three - File Systems |
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| 4/15 | Chapter 10 | Session Twenty Four - Naming and Directories | Exercise #7 (due 4/22) [Sessions 23-24] Answers |
| 4/17 | Session Twenty Five - Boot Sectors, Files and Directories, File I/O | Project 4 Specification(due 5/3 at 11:59pm on eLearning) Project4-README.docx |
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| 4/19 | Session Twenty Six - More about Project 4 | ||
| 4/22 | Section 9.7 | Session Twenty Eight - FAT32 Directory Entries, Project Operations | |
| 4/24 | Work day and answer questions on Project 4 | ||
| 4/26 | Session Twenty Nine - Transactions and Reliability | Exercise #8 (due 5/3) [Session 28-30] Answers |
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| 4/29 | Chapter 14, Sections 13.4-13.7 | Session Thirty - Protection and Security | |
| 5/1 | Work Day and Answer Questions about Project Go over homeworks 6 and 7 answers |
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| 5/3 | Go over homework 8 answers Final Review |
Final Project 3 Due 5/3 at 11:59pm | |
| 5/6 |
Final Exam: 3:00-4:50pm |