CMPS 111, Winter 2004

Class Schedule

This is an overall schedule for CMPS 111, Winter 2004. This page lists all assignments, due dates, and reading material by date, and also includes links to the slides for each chapter of the text.

The slides from class are organized by the date on which they were discussed in class. The slides are in PDF format (2 slides per page), and can be read with Acrobat Reader, a free program that's available for Macintosh, Windows, and various versions of Unix. You may want to print two "pages" on each sheet of paper (resulting in 4 slides per sheet) to save paper. Slides are organized by chapter, so there may not be slides for every lecture. If a lecture doesn't have slides associated with it, assume that we will cover slides from an earlier lecture. Also, not every chapter will have slides because we won't be covering every chapter in the text.

This is a tentative schedule, and will be adjusted periodically to reflect how far we've gotten in class. This schedule is subject to minor changes through the quarter. Assignment dates and due dates may be modified depending on the pace of the class.

Day Date Topics Out Due Read before class Slides
Tu Jan 6 Class mechanics
Operating systems history
Operating systems concepts
Proj 1 - 1.1,1.2,1.3

Intro
Chap 1

Th Jan 8 Operating systems concepts
Operating systems structure
System calls
    1.5,1.6,1.7  
Tu Jan 13 Processes & threads
Scheduling
    2.1,2.2,2.5 Chap 2
Th Jan 15 Interprocess communication
Synchronization
  Proj 1 2.3,2.4  
    IPC & synchronization Proj 2   2.3,2.4  
    Resources & deadlock HW 1   3.1–3.4 Chap 3
    Deadlocks     3.5–3.7  
Th Jan 22 Memory management
Swapping
    4.1,4.2 Chap 4
    Virtual memory
Page replacement
    4.3–4.5  
    Segmentation
Implementation issues
  4.6–4.8  
Th Jan 29 Segmentation & VM implementation
I/O hardware & software
HW 2
    Chap 5
        HW 1 (Feb 1)
Proj 2 (Feb 2)
   
    I/O software layers
Clocks
Power management
    Chap 5  
    Disk hardware
Disk scheduling
Files
    Chap 6 Chap 6
Grouping
    Directories & naming      
Th Feb 12

MIDTERM (in class)

    File system implementation
File system examples
       
    Multimedia
Video on Demand
    Chap 7 Chap 7
        Chap 8 Chap 8
 
    Security basics
A tiny bit of crypto
Authentication
    9.1–9.3 Chap 9
    Attacks on computer systems
Viruses, trojan horses & worms
Protection & access control
    9.4–9.7  
    OS case study: Unix
Review
    Chap 10 Chap 10
    FINAL EXAM

Last updated 2 Mar 2004 by Bo Adler