Lectures:
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MWF |
1:00PM |
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1:50PM |
Cudahy 137 |
Office Hours:
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Course instructor
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Prof. Dennis Brylow |
Mon |
3:00PM |
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4:00PM |
Cudahy 380 |
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Mon |
7:00PM |
- |
8:00PM |
Cudahy 380 |
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Wed |
3:00PM |
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4:00PM |
Cudahy 380 |
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Fri |
11:00AM |
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12:00PM |
Cudahy 380 |
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Textbooks:
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The C Programming Language,
second edition. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
Prentice Hall.
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Operating Systems Concepts,
seventh edition. Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Galvin,
and Greg Gagne. Wiley.
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We will make our way quickly through The C Programming
Language by Kernighan and Ritchie, (which is
traditionally referred to simply as "K&R" by those in the know,)
to get up to speed on C programming. The text is a remarkably
elegant introduction to what remains the standard language of
systems programming, written by the men who designed C and UNIX.
We will move more slowly through Operating Systems Concepts. It is
a large book filled with copious examples of real-world
operating system components; a second, advanced operating
systems course would be able to make it the rest of the way
through the book.
Readings will be regularly assigned from the textbooks.
Lectures will assume that students have already read
the assigned chapters. In addition, some of the
written homework problems may be assigned out of the
book. Some of these problems also make excellent exam
questions.
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Course Outcomes:
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Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
Understand the basic concepts of operating system process
control, synchronization, and scheduling;
Understand the concepts and technologies involved with
operating system memory management, secondary storage, and
file systems;
Design and modify the components of an operating system;
Read and write programs in the C language.
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Grading Policy:
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Projects
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60% |
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Pop Quizzes
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5% |
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Exam #1
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10% |
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Exam #2
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10% |
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Exam #3
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15% |
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Students must pass BOTH the exam portion of the grade AND and
the project portion of the grade to pass the course
overall.
Assignments are to be completed individually, except when
specifically noted otherwise. You may discuss course topics
with your collegues, but written work and programmed code
is not to be shared.
Academic dishonesty (claiming another person's work as your
own) will not be tolerated. Infractions will result in immediate
failure of the course, and referral to the Dean's office.
If you are not certain what constitutes fair play and what
will be considered academic dishonesty, please ask the instructor.
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