Operating Systems (Fall 2010)

This is the main page for the Fall 2010 run of Carleton University's COMP 3000, Operating Systems. The instructor for this course is Anil Somayaji

Course Outline

The course outline for this course can be found here

Class Help

The best way to get general help for this class is to email or IM "2010comp3000 at gmail dot com". TAs and the instructor will be monitoring this account. For grade-specific questions, however, please email the TAs and/or the instructor directly using your Connect account.

Group assignments

Randomized group assignments for the essays are listed in WebCT.

Lectures and Deadlines

Date	Due/In Class	Topics	Readings
Sept. 9th		Class Outline
Sept. 14th & 16th		OS Overview	Chap. 1
Sept. 19th & 21st	Lab 1	Processes & Threads	Chap. 2
Sept. 28th & 30th	Lab 2	Processes & Threads (cont.)	Chap. 2
Oct. 5th & 7th	Lab 3 Assignment 1 (Oct. 7th)	File Systems	Chap. 4
Oct. 10th & 12th	Essay 1 (Oct. 12th)	File Systems (cont.)	Chap. 4
Oct. 19th		Midterm review
Oct. 21st	Midterm exam
Oct. 26th & 28th		Input/Output	Chap. 5
Nov. 2nd & 4th	Lab 4	Memory Management	Chap. 3
Nov. 9th & 11th	Lab 5	Memory Management (cont.)	Chap. 3
Nov. 16 & 18th	Lab 6 Assignment 2 (Nov. 18th)	Virtual Machines	Section 8.3
Nov. 23 & 25th	Essay 2 (Nov. 25th)	Distributed OSs	Section 8.4
Nov. 30th		Security	Chap. 9
Dec. 2nd		The Future of Operating Systems
TBA	Final Exam