COSC 2P13

COSC 2P13: Introduction to Operating Systems
Spring 2011

Course Outline | Schedule/News | Course Materials | Assignments

General Information

Instructor: Rob Teather
Email: rteather (at) brocku (dot) ca
Office Hours: Monday, 12:00 - 13:00
Lecture Times: Monday, 13:00 - 17:00
Lecture Location: PL410
Course TA: TBA

Course Outline

Course topics include:

review of computer architecture and hardware
processes
- creation
- management
- scheduling and interprocess communication
- deadlock
- mutual exclusion
- semaphores and mutex
memory management
- multiprogramming
- swapping
- virtual memory
IO hardware and software
other topics as time permits

Schedule/News

News/Announcements:


	June 26, 2011: Final slides on I/O posted below. These will cover the last two weeks of class. Final exam will be held in WCDVIS.
	June 11, 2011: Assignment 2 posted below. It is due July 4 (the last day of class).		
	June 6, 2011: Slides for today posted.	 			
	June 5, 2011: Midterm grades posted. Assignment 2 will be out soon!		
	May 29, 2011: Slides for tomorrow's class on Deadlock now posted below (in both PDF and PPT formats).		
	May 27, 2011: Per discussion in class, the assignment is now due next Thursday instead of Monday.
	No lates after this date will be accepted, so assignments submitted after Thursday will receive a grade of 0.	
	May 27, 2011: Powerpoint versions of the slides now posted below.			
	May 27, 2011: Reminder that today is a makeup class for the Victoria Day holiday.		
	May 15, 2011: Slides posted below. Instructor office hour cancelled for tomorrow.		
	May 7, 2011: As a reminder, Monday's class will cover a quick tutorial on C and basic Linux	commands 
	for navigating directories and creating files, etc. The substiture instructor will be	Martin Derka.
	The class will start at the usual time, but will be roughly 2 hours instead of the usual 4.	
	May 1, 2011:  Assignment 1 posted below.			
	April 30, 2011: Course outline posted above. Slides for this week's lecture are posted below.Assignment 1 will be available soon.			
	April 18, 2011: Site went live. More details (including course outline) will be available soon.

Schedule:


	Lectures and labs for the spring term begin Monday May 2nd.				
	Midterm Exam: Saturday, June 4, 14:00 - 16:00. Location WCDVIS.				
	Final Exam: Saturday, July 9, 14:00 - 17:00. Location WCDVIS.

Course Materials

Text: Modern Operating Systems, 3rd Edition. Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Prentice Hall, ISBN: 978-0136006633.

Lecture Slides:

Week 1 PDF | PPT - Introduction, May 2
Week 2 PDF | PPT - Processes, Interprocess Communication, May 2
Week 3 PDF | PPT - Threads/Scheduling, May 16

Week 4 PDF | PPT - Deadlock, May 30
Week 5 PPT - Memory Management (Swapping), June 6
Week 6 PPT - Memory Management (Paging), June 6 - 13
Week 7 PPT - Memory Management (segmentation), June 13
Week 8 PPT - File Systems, June 13 - 20
Week 9 PPT - I/O Part 1, June 27

PPT - I/O Part 2, June 27 - July 4

Week 10 PPT - I/O Part 3, July 4

Assignments

Assignment 1 - Due ~~May 30~~ June 2 shared.c
Assignment 2 - Due July 4

Remark Request form - must be submitted within 1 week of grade availability

Other stuff

Some simple example C programs hello.c IO.c ptr.c

APCO 1P93 C labs from Fall 2010 - these labs range from extremely basic, to fairly advanced, so depending on your C background, you may want to skip the first couple

Basic C tutorial (offsite link)

C pointer tutorial (offsite link)

C reference: www.cppreference.com

Common Unix/Linux commands

see the COSC 2P89 introductory lab for more UNIX commands

Putty SSH client: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Computer Science

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