Operating Systems (Fall 2017)

Course Outline

Here is the course outline for COMP 3000: Operating Systems.

Lectures and Exams

Note that the topics below are primarily chapters from the class textbook, Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Note that while introductory and summary dialogues are not linked below, they are worth reading for an informal take on the material.

Assigned readings are subject to change, please check this page each week.

Date	Topic
Sept. 7	Lecture 1: Introduction
Sept. 12	Lecture 2: Processes, Process API
Sept. 14	Lecture 3: Limited Direct Execution, CPU Scheduling, MLFQ
Sept. 19	Lecture 4: Address Spaces, Memory API
Sept. 21	Lecture 5: Hard Disk Drives, File and Directories
Sept. 26	Lecture 6: I/O Devices, FSCK and Journaling
Sept. 28	Lecture 7: File System Implementation
Oct. 3	Lecture 8: Assignment/Tutorial help session (Akhil)
Oct. 5	Lecture 9: Concurrency and Threads, Locks
Oct. 10	Lecture 10: Concurrent Data Structures, Semaphores
Oct. 12	Lecture 11: Address Translation, TLBs
Oct. 17	Lecture 12: Segmentation, Free space management
Oct. 19	Lecture 13: Paging
Oct. 31	Lecture 14: Midterm Review
Nov. 2	Midterm Exam
Nov. 7	Lecture 15
Nov. 9	Lecture 16
Nov. 14	Lecture 17
Nov. 16	Lecture 18
Nov. 21	Lecture 19
Nov. 23	Lecture 20: TBD (US Thanksgiving)
Nov. 28	Lecture 21
Nov. 30	Lecture 22
Dec. 5	Lecture 23
Dec. 7	Lecture 24

Tutorials

Each week you will get a progress grade from 0-4, given to you by a TA. If you are being diligent, you should be able to get 4's every week. The easiest way to get your grade is to come to tutorial and meet with your TA; alternately, you can meet a TA in their office hours or, at their discretion, discuss things with them online.

Date	Tutorials
Sept. 18,20	Processes and System Calls
Sept. 25, 27	3000shell.c
Oct. 2, 4	3000test.c
Oct. 16, 18	3000pc.c
Nov. 6, 8	Filesystems and kernel modules
Nov. 13, 15	newgetpid.c
Nov. 20, 22	TBA
Nov. 27, 29	TBA

Assignments

Due Date	Assignments
Oct. 12, 1 PM	Assignment 1
Oct. 26	Assignment 2
Nov. 20	Assignment 3
Dec. 4	Assignment 4

Course Software

In this course we will primarily working with Ubuntu, a widely-used family of Linux distributions. We will be using Ubuntu Server on the SCS's Openstack installation (accessible only from the Carleton network).

You may use other Linux distributions to complete the assigned work; there will be differences, however, in some aspects (such as installing software), particularly if you use a distribution not based on Ubuntu or Debian.

Contributing Notes

The instructions and guidelines for contributing notes to the wiki can be found here.