CC373: Operating Systems:
Textbook:
Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 9/E, William Stallings, ISBN-13 9780134670959, Pearson, 2017.Grade Distribution: (subject to change due to COVID-22)
- Homework Assignments: 10%
- Lab Assignments: 20%
- Midterm Exam: 20%
- Final Exam: 50%
- Lack of Discipline or Violation of Course Honor Code --> ZERO in semester work
Course Policy:
- All course-related communication is done through Piazza
- No late entry to the classroom
- No late submission of any deliverables
- No side talking
- Food/Beverages are ok, Coffee is recommended
- Homework assignments are to be handwritten
Syllabus/Schedule: (subject to change due to COVID-22)
| Week | Date | Topic | Chapter | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Pre-semester | Computer System Overview | 1 | YouTube |
| 1 | 1/10 | Operating System Overview | 2 | YouTube |
| 2 | 8/10 | Process Description and Control | 3 | YouTube |
| 3 | 15/10 | Threads | 4 | YouTube |
| 4 | 22/10 | Uniprocessor Scheduling | 9 | YouTube |
| 5 | 29/10 | Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization | 5 |
YouTube1 YouTube2 YouTube3 |
| 6 | 5/11 | |||
| 7 | 12/11 | Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation | 6 | YouTube |
| 8 | 19/11 | Memory Management | 7 | YouTube |
| 9 | Midterm Exam, Date/Time: see college exam schedule, Exam spans: Chap 2, 3, 4, 9 | |||
| 10 | 3/12 | Virtual Memory | 8 | YouTube1 |
| 11 | 10/12 | YouTube2 | ||
| 12 | 17/12 | I/O Management and Disk Scheduling | 11 | YouTube |
| 13 | 24/12 | File Management | 12 | YouTube |
| 14 | 31/12 | Wrap-Up | ||
| Final Exam, Date/Time: see college exam schedule, Exam spans: Chap 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 | ||||
Homework Assignments:
- [Out Sat 1/10 Due Fri 7/10 @ 11:59pm] Class Honor Code (sheet)
- [Out Sat 8/10 Due Fri 14/10 @ 11:59pm] Process Description and Control (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 15/10 Due Fri 21/10 @ 11:59pm] Threads (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 22/10 Due Fri 28/10 @ 11:59pm] Uniprocessor Scheduling (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 29/10 Due Fri 4/11 @ 11:59pm] Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 5/11 Due Fri 11/11 @ 11:59pm] Concurrency: Synchronization (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 12/11 Due Fri 18/11 @ 11:59pm] Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 19/11 Due Fri 2/12 @ 11:59pm] Memory Management (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 3/12 Due Fri 9/12 @ 11:59pm] Virtual Memory (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 10/12 Due Fri 16/12 @ 11:59pm] Policies for Virtual Memory (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 17/12 Due Fri 23/12 @ 11:59pm] I/O Management and Disk Scheduling (sheet - solution)
- [Out Sat 24/12 Due Sun 1/1 @ 11:59pm] File Management (sheet - )
Lab Assignments:
| Lab# | Topic | Release Date | Implementation Period (From - To) |
Due Date | Grading Period in lab (From-To) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shell Commands and Scripting | 4/10/2022 | in lab | in lab | N/A | 8/10/2022 | 20/10/2022 |
| 2 | Backup Script | 8/10/2022 | 8/10/2022 | 21/10/2022 | 21/10/2022 | 22/10/2022 | 3/11/2022 |
| 3 | Mini Shell (Source Code) | 22/10/2022 | 22/10/2022 | 5/11/2022 | 5/11/2022 | 5/11/2022 | 17/11/2022 |
| 4 | CPU Scheduling (Sample Testcases) | 7/11/2022 | 7/11/2022 | 22/11/2022 | 22/11/2022 | N/A | N/A |
| 5 | Producer/Consumer Problem | 22/11/2022 | 3/12/2022 | 16/12/2022 | 16/12/2022 | 17/12/2022 | 29/12/2022 |
| 6 | Threads (Codebase) | 8/12/2022 | 17/12/2022 | 30/12/2022 | 30/12/2022 | N/A | N/A |