Cpr E 308: Operating Systems, Principles and Practice
Spring 2006

MWF 9.00-9.50, Room Carver 305  

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Class Schedule

Week	Day	Lecture Slides	Reading	Lab/Project
Week 1	M Jan 10	Introduction (pdf) and Hardware Review (pdf)	Chapter 1	No Lab
	W Jan 12
	F Jan 14	Unix Intro + Processes	Sections 1.5, 1.6
Week 2	M Jan 17	Holiday		Introduction to Linux
	W Jan 19	Process Memory: Stack and Heap
	F Jan 21	Unix Processes: Fork and Exec	Section 1.6
Week 3	M Jan 23	Multiprogramming and Context Switch	2.1	Linux Processes
	W Jan 25	Multiprogramming continued + System Calls	2.1, 1.6, Linux manpages
	F Jan 27	Introduction to Threads	2.2
Week 4	M Jan 30	Introduction to Threads	2.2	Unix Shell
	W Feb 1	Review of UNIX shell project
	F Feb 3	Thread Synchronization -- Mutexes	2.3
Week 5	M Feb 6	Mutexes	2.3	Unix Shell
	W Feb 8	Mutex Implementations	2.3
	F Feb 10	Producer Consumer	2.3-2.4
Week 6	M Feb 13	Condition Variables	2.3-2.4	Multithreaded Programming
	W Feb 15	More Condition Variables	2.3-2.4
	F Feb 17	Dining Philosophers	2.4
Week 7	M Feb 20	Deadlocks, Thread Implementations		Multithreaded Programming
	W Feb 22	Process Scheduling	2.5
	F Feb 24	Process Scheduling
Week 8	M Feb 27	Process Scheduling		Threads Project
	W Mar 1	Memory Management	Chapter 4
	F Mar 3	Memory Management	4.1
Week 9	M Mar 6	Recap for midterm, Discussion of Old Exam		Threads Project
	W Mar 8	Mid Term Exam
	F Mar 10	Memory Management	4.3
Week 10	Spring Break
Week 11	M Mar 20	Memory Management -- Virtual Memory	4.3	Inter Process Communication
	W Mar 22	Memory Management -- Page Tables, TLB	4.3
	F Mar 24	Memory Management -- Large Page Tables	4.3
Week 12	M Mar 27	Page Replacement	4.4	Process Scheduling
	W Mar 29	Page Replacement	4.7
	F Mar 31	Memory Management Wrapup
Week 13	M Apr 3	File Systems User Interface	6.1,6.2	No Lab (Catchup)
	W Apr 5	File Systems Programming Interface (UNIX)	10.6
	F Apr 7	File Systems Programming Interface (UNIX)	10.6
Week 14	M Apr 10	File Systems Implementation	6.3	File Systems Project
	W Apr 12	File Systems Implementation	6.3
	F Apr 14	File Systems Implementation	6.3
Week 15	M Apr 17	File Systems Wrapup	9.1, 9.3	File Systems Project
	W Apr 19	Security, UNIX passwords	9.3
	F Apr 21	Security across a network	9.2
Week 16	M Apr 24	Public Key Schemes	9.2	Security Lab
	W Apr 26	Public Key Schemes
	F Apr 28	Recap of Class, Final Exam Preparation
Week 17	W May 3 7.30-9.30am	Final Exam (Comprehensive)

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Last modified: Monday, Feb 20, 2006