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| Week | Date | Topics | Reading | Milestones | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon. 25 Aug. | Course Overview Introduction to OS |
General Policies and Proceedures Proficiency Grading Chapters 1 |
Assign First Day Survey | |
| Wed. 27 Aug. | OS Structures, process concepts Processes / Time sharing / IPC |
Chapter 2 Chapter 3 |
Due First Day Survey | ||
| Thu. 28 Aug. | Assign Lab 1: System Development Tools | ||||
| 2 | Mon. 1 Sep. | No Class | Due Lab 1: System Development Tools | ||
| Wed. 3 Sep. | Processes / Time sharing | Chapter 3 | |||
| Thu. 4 Sep. | Assign Lab 2: Process Management | ||||
| 3 | Mon. 8 Sep. | Fork & exec / IPC Threading |
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 |
Due Lab 2: Process Management | |
| Wed. 10 Sep. | Quiz 1: Operating Systems Definition and Purpose | ||||
| Thu. 11 Sep. | Assign Lab 3: Interprocess Communication | ||||
| 4 | Mon. 15 Sep. | Synchronization | Chapter 5.1 - 5.3 | Due Lab 3: Interprocess Communication | |
| Wed. 17 Sep. | Quiz 2: Processes, Scheduling, IPC | Assign Project 1: One Bad Apple | |||
| Thu. 18 Sep. | Assign Lab 4: Threads | ||||
| 5 | Mon. 22 Sep. | Synchronization (hardware, mutex, semaphore) Semaphore basics |
Chapter 5.4 - 5.7 | Due Lab 4: Threads | |
| Wed. 24 Sep. | Classic synchronization problems Quiz 3: Threading |
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| Thu. 25 Sep. | Assign Lab 5: Shared Memory | ||||
| 6 | Mon. 29 Sep. | Monitors | Chapter 5.8 - 5.11 | Due Lab 5: Shared Memory | |
| Wed. 1 Oct. | |||||
| Thu. 2 Oct. | Assign Lab 6: Synchronization | ||||
| 7 | Mon. 6 Oct. | Scheduleing | Chapter 6 | Due Lab 6: Synchronization | |
| Wed. 8 Oct. | Quiz 4: Synchronization 1 | Due Project 1: One Bad Apple | |||
| Thu. 9 Oct. | Assign Lab 7: Resource Limits | ||||
| 8 | Mon. 13 Oct. | Memory Management | Chapter 7 | Due Lab 7: Resource Limits | |
| Wed. 15 Oct. | Quiz 5: Synchronization 2 | ||||
| Thu. 16 Oct. | Assign Lab 8: CPU Scheduling | ||||
| 9 | Mon. 20 Oct. | No Class Fall Break | |||
| Wed. 22 Oct. | Memory management / Virtual memory | Sections 7.1-7.4 | Due Lab 8: CPU Scheduling | ||
| Thu. 23 Oct. | |||||
| 10 | Mon. 27 Oct. | Virtual memory | Sections 8.1-8.3 | ||
| Wed. 29 Oct. | Quiz 6: Memory Management | ||||
| Thu. 30 Oct. | |||||
| 11 | Mon. 3 Nov. | Paging | Section 8.4 | ||
| Wed. 5 Nov. | Quiz 7: Virtual Memory | ||||
| Thu. 6 Nov. | |||||
| 12 | Mon. 10 Nov. | More VM/Paging | Sections 8.5 - 8.10 | ||
| Wed. 12 Nov. | |||||
| 13 | Mon. 17 Nov. | File systems | Chaters 9, 10, 11 | ||
| Wed. 19 Nov. | Quiz 8: Virtual Memory / Paging | ||||
| Thu. 20 Nov. | |||||
| 14 | Mon. 24 Nov. | File Systems | Chapters 9, 10, 11 | ||
| Wed. 26 Nov. | No Class Thanksgiving | ||||
| 15 | Mon. 1 Dec. | Catch up and Review | |||
| Wed. 3 Dec. | Quiz 9: File systems | ||||
| Thu. 4 Dec. | |||||
| 16 | Mon. 8 Dec. | Final Exam: noon. |
| Due | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Wed. 27 Aug. | First Day Survey | |
| Wed. 8 Oct. | Project 1: One Bad Apple |
| Date | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Thu. 28 Aug. | Lab 1: System Development Tools | |
| Thu. 4 Sep. | Lab 2: Process Management | |
| Thu. 11 Sep. | Lab 3: Interprocess Communication | |
| Thu. 18 Sep. | Lab 4: Threads | |
| Thu. 25 Sep. | Lab 5: Shared Memory | |
| Thu. 2 Oct. | Lab 6: Synchronization | |
| Thu. 9 Oct. | Lab 7: Resource Limits | |
| Thu. 16 Oct. | Lab 8: CPU Scheduling |
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