Date       Topics                                                                            Assignments

Mon 01/08 Introduction

Wed 01/10 Introduction  

Mon 01/15 No Class Martin Luther King Day                                                  

Wed 01/17 Introduction

Mon 01/22 Operating System Structures                                                

Wed 01/24 Operating System Structures                                                                                      

Mon 01/29 Processes                                                                                    

Wed 01/31 Processes

Mon 02/05 Threads                                                                                        

Wed 02/07 Threads                                                                                        

Mon 02/12 CPU Scheduling                                                                        

Wed 02/14 CPU Scheduling                                                                               

Mon 02/19 Process Synchronization                                                 Homework  assigned     

Wed 02/21 Process Synchronization                                                 Programming task assigned

Mon 02/26 No Class Winter Recess                                                    

Wed 02/28 No Class Winter Recess                                                                                       

Mon 03/05 Deadlocks    

Wed 03/07 Deadlocks                                                                             Homework due

Mon 03/12 Memory Management                                                         WebCT Quiz posted

                                                                                                      (last day for quiz submission: 03/23)

Wed 03/14 Memory Management                                                                            

Mon 03/19 Virtual Memory                             

Wed 03/21 Virtual Memory 

Mon 03/26 Programming assignment presentations

Wed 03/28 Programming assignment presentations                                                                 

Mon 04/02 File System Interface                                                           Written report due

Wed 04/04 Students Oral Presentations

Mon 04/09 Students Oral Presentations

Wed 04/11 File System Interface

OBJECTIVES

The student should:

• Describe what characterize an OS, what they do and how they are designed and constructed
• Recognize and distinguish the hardware parts that are necessary to understand an OS
• Define a process  (or a thread) and the notion of concurrency correctly since they are the heart of modern operating systems
• Distinguish between OS processes and user processes
• Describe methods for process scheduling, inter-process communication, process synchronization and deadlock handling
• Describe the role of the main memory for a process execution and the algorithms related to memory management including virtual memory
• Compass the file-system interface features such as file attributes, directory structure, acyclic graph directories and file sharing

This set of objectives given by the instructor is not necessarily reached by the students. Assessment should be provided to measure the distance between the outcomes and these objectives.