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Weekly Calendar

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[Week 11] [Week 12] [Week 13] [Week 14] [Week 15]

Assignment code

R - Review exercise (do not need to turn in).
H - Homework (need to turn in hardcopy).
Q - Quizzes.
P - Programming projects.
M - Midterm.
F - Final exam.
D - Specified assignments are due in class today.

The section number in the texturebook shown in bold.
Note: For the review exercises starting with "man", you need to login on UNIX machines such as shell, diablo, linprog, and program to type in the commands such as "man fork" and read the manual pages.
I will make the lecture notes available as soon as possible. However, the final version will be available the night before the class.

Week 1

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
8/26	Chap. 1	Class Organization Introduction	Week 1 Tuesday	Syllabus simple-fork.cc simple-cmd.cc simple-shell.cc Lab 1 ( Test plan mainly used for testing)	R: man fork man -s 2 exec man -s 2 exit man -s 2 wait
8/28	Chap. 1 Chap. 2	OS Strategies Using the OS	Week 1 Thursday

Note: On linprog, to see the man pages of exec, you need to use "man execve" and "man execl".

Week 2

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
9/2	Chap. 2 (Skip Windows model of 2.4)	Using OS (Continued)	Week 2 Tuesday Cross referenced Linux Code Why Threads a Bad Idea (Suggested)	simple-cd.cc simple-env.cc simple-cmd-background.cc	R: man chdir man -s 2 getcwd man -s 2 getenv man -s 2 setenv
9/4	Chap. 3	OS Organization	Week 2 Thursday

Week 3

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
9/9	Chap. 4 (Skip 4.7 Self study 4.6 and 4.8)	Computer Organization	Week 3 Tuesday	simple-cmd-redirect.cc simple-pipe.cc simple-pipe-cmd2.cc simple-cmd-background.cc	R: man pipe man -s 2 dup man -s 2 dup2 H: Homework 1 ( as word doc) (Due 9/23/03)
9/11	Chap. 5	Device Management	Week 3 Thursday sig_handle.cc		R: man -s 3C signal man -s 3HEAD signal man -s 2 kill man -s 2 alarm man -s 2 pause

Week 4

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
9/16	Chap. 5	Device Management (Continued)	Week 4 Tuesday
9/18	Chap. 6	Process Management	Week 4 Thursday		Q: Quiz #1 (At end of class) (Solutions (as word doc))

Week 5

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
9/23	Chap. 6 and 7 (Skip 6.7 and 6.8)	Process Management (Continued) Scheduling	Week 5 Tuesday Suggested: POSIX Threads Programming Pthreads Tutorial Documentation on The LinuxThreads Library Examples using pthread library	simple-pthread.cc simple-thread.cc Lab 2 Lab2 Code (without synchronization) (It only compiles and works on program)	R: man pthread_create man pthread_join man pthread_self man -s 3C getopt man pthread_attr_init man pthread_attr_destroy
9/25	Chap. 7	Scheduling (Continued)	Week 5 Thursday		H: Homework 2 ( as word doc) (Due 10/7/03)

Week 6

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
9/29	Chap. 7 and 8	Scheduling (Continued) Basic synchronization principles	Week 6 Tuesday Week 6 Tuesday 2nd Part	simple-mutex.cc simple-semaphore.cc	R: man mutex_init man mutex_lock man mutex_trylock man mutex_unlock man mutex_destroy man sema_init man sema_wait man sema_trywait man sema_post man sema_destroy
10/1	Guest Lecture	Given by Dr. Andy Wang

Week 7

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
10/6	Chap 8	Basic synchronization principles (Continued)	Week 7 Tuesday	bounded-buffer.c consumer.c producer.c	R: man shmget man shmat man semget man semop man ipcs man ipcrm H: Homework 3 ( as word doc) (Due 10/21/03 (No late submission will be accepted))
10/9	Chap 8 and 9	Process synchronization (Continued)	Week 7 Thursday		Q: Quiz #2 (At the end of class)

Week 8

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Assignments
10/13	Chap 9	High-level synchronization principles Interprocess communication	Week 8 Tuesday	R: man condition man cond_wait man cond_signal man msgget man msgsnd man msgrcv
10/14	Chap 10	Deadlock	Week 8 Wednesday
10/15		No class

Week 9

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
10/21	Chap. 1-9	Review	Midterm review	A previous year midterm
10/23	Chap. 1-9	Midterm	Week 9 Thursday		M: midterm today

Week 10

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
10/28	Chap. 10	Deadlock (Contiuned)	Week 10 Tuesday		Lab 3 (Due Dec. 3, 2003) Partial Lab3 Code H: Homework 4 ( as word doc) Solutions to Homework #4 (as word doc).
10/30	Chap. 10 (Consumable resources (pp. 403-407) will NOT be on a quiz or the final exam) Chap. 13	Deadlock (Contiuned)	Week 10 Thursday (Same as Tuesday) Week 10 Thursday (File Systems)

Week 11

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
11/4	Chap. 13	File Management	Week 11 Tuesday
11/6	Chap. 13	File Management(Contiuned)	Week 11 Thursday (Same as Tuesday)

Week 12

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Assignments
11/11		Veterans' day	No class
11/12			No recitation class
11/13	Chap. 11	Memory Management	Week 12 Thursday	H: Homework 5 ( as word doc) (Due 11/25/03) Solutions to Homework #5 (as word doc)

Week 13

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes
11/18	Chap. 11 and 12	Memory Management (Continued) Virtual Memory	Week 12 Thursday (Same as last Thursday) Week 13 Tuesday
11/19			No recitation class
11/20	Chap. 12	Virtual Memory	Week 13 Thursday (Same as Tuesday)

Week 14

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Assignments
11/25	Chap. 12	Class evaluation Virtual Memory (Continued)	Week 14 Tuesday (Same as last Thursday)	Q: Quiz #3
11/26		Recitation (Not required)	Questions and anwswers regarding Lab3 and others
11/27		No Class	Happy Thanksgiving

Week 15

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes
12/2	Chap. 14	Protection and Security	Week 15 Tuesday
12/3		Recitation	Demonstration of your lab3
12/4		Protection and Security (continued) Final review	Week 15 Tuesday (Same as Last Tuesday) Final review

Week 16

Date	Reading	Topics	Lecture Notes	Handout	Assignments
12/11		Final Exam	Exam Note		5:30-7:30PM

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