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The LECTURE will be on Tuesday/Thursday, 16:00-17:20, 240A McKenzie Hall. The lectures will be live on Zoom and recorded with a link posted in Canvas for each lecture.

The LAB will be on Wednesday and Thursday, 28 Klamath.

The following abbreviations are used in the table below:

All lecture slides, assignment, lab, and project materials will be available on Canvas.

Week Date Topic Readings Assignments
1 September
26
Welcome and Introduction OSC: Chapter 1
TPCL: Chapter 1-3
PIC: Program Compilation, C Basics, Conditionals, Looping and Iteration, Arrays and Strings, Functions
Tutorial: Heaps and ADTs in C
Lab 0
September
27 and 28
LAB Tools: Oracle VirtualBox , UTM , Git , Subversion , Valgrind , GDB Lab 1
September
28
OS Structure and System Calls OSC: Chapter 2
LMP: read(2) , write(2) , fork(2) , execve(2) , execl(3) , wait(2) , exit(2)
PIC: Pointers , I/O , String Handling , File Access , Standard Libraries , Writing Larger Programs
Project 1
2 October
3
Processes OSC: Chapter 3
PIC: Process Control
 
October
4 and 5
LAB   Lab 2
October
5
Interprocess Communication OSC: Chapter 3.4-3.6, 17.4.1-2
PIC: IPC , IPC:Message Queues , IPC:Shared Memory , RPC
 
3 October
10
Threads OSC: Chapter 4
PIC:
Threads , IPC: Interrupts and Signals
 
October
11 and 12
LAB   Lab 3
October
12
Threads OSC: Chapter 5  
4 October
16
Scheduling OSC: Chapter 6
PIC:
IPC: Semaphores
Papers:
E.W. Dijkstra, " Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control," CACM, Vol. 8, Issue 9, September 1965.
E.W. Dijkstra, " Cooperating Sequential Processes," The Origin of Concurrent Programming, pp. 65-138, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
L. Lamport, " A New Solution of Dijkstra's Concurrent Programming Problem," CACM, Vol. 17, No. 8, August 1974.
 
October
17 and 18
LAB   Lab 4
October
18
Concurrency and Synchronization OSC: Chapter 6/7
PIC: Thread Programming: Synchronization , Thread Programming Examples
Project 2
5 October
24
Multi-object synchronization (Deadlocks) OSC: Chapter 8
 
October
25 and 26
LAB   Lab 5
October
26
REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW
Midterm preparation
6 October
31
MIDTERM MIDTERM MIDTERM
November
1 and 2
LAB   Lab 6
November
2
Memory, address translation, paging OSC: Chapter 9
 
7 November
7
Memory, address translation, paging OSC: Chapter 9/10
Project 3
November
8 and 9
LAB   Lab 7
November
9
Virtual memory OSC: Chapter 10
 
8 November
14
Virtual memory
File system - theory
(Prof. Malony and Dewi will be at SC'23.)
Papers:
P. Denning, " The working set model for program behavior," Communications of the ACM. 11(5):323–333, 1968.
OSC: Chapter 10, 13
 
November
15 and 16
LAB
(Dewi will be at SC'23.)
  Lab 8
November
16
File system - theory
(Prof. Malony and Dewi will be at SC'23.)
OSC: Chapter 13  
9 November
21
File systems implementation OSC: Chapter 13 and 14  
November
22 and 23
LAB   Lab 9
November
23
I/O systems
OSC: Chapter 13 and 14  
10 November
28
I/O systems
OSC: Chapter 12  
November
29 and 30
LAB   Lab 10
November
30
Wrapup and Final Review OSC: Chapter 12  
11 December 5
12:30-14:30
FINAL FINAL FINAL