Tentative schedule for CIS 452

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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
	Thu. 18 Sep.			Assign Lab 4: Threads


5	Mon. 22 Sep.	Synchronization (hardware, mutex, semaphore)	Chapter 5.4 - 5.7	Due Lab 4: Threads
	Wed. 24 Sep.	Quiz 3: Threading
	Thu. 25 Sep.			Assign Lab 5: Shared Memory


6	Mon. 29 Sep.	Synchronization (deadlock)	Chapter 5.8 - 5.11	Due Lab 5: Shared Memory
	Wed. 1 Oct.
	Thu. 2 Oct.			Assign Lab 5: Shared Memory


7	Mon. 6 Oct.	Scheduleing	Chapter 6
	Wed. 8 Oct.	Quiz 4: Synchronization 1
	Thu. 9 Oct.			Assign Lab 5: Shared Memory


8	Mon. 13 Oct.	Memory Management	Chapter 7
	Wed. 15 Oct.	Quiz 5: Synchronization 2
	Fri. 17 Oct.			Assign Lab 5: Shared Memory


9	Mon. 20 Oct.	No Class Fall Break
	Wed. 22 Oct.	Memory management / Virtual memory	Sections 7.1-7.4


10	Mon. 27 Oct.	Virtual memory	Sections 8.1-8.3
	Wed. 29 Oct.	Quiz 6: Memory Management


11	Mon. 3 Nov.	Paging	Section 8.4
	Wed. 5 Nov.	Quiz 7: Virtual Memory


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


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


16	Mon. 8 Dec.	Final Exam: noon.

Assignment List

Due	Name	Details
Wed. 27 Aug.	First Day Survey

Labs

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
Fri. 17 Oct.	Lab 5: Shared Memory

Updated Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 3:59 PM