| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 24 (W) | About the course (Notes) | ||
| August 29 (M) | Overview and history of operating systems (Notes) | 1.1, 1.2 | |
| August 31 (W) | Hardware functionality; operating system concepts and structures; system calls (Notes) | 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 | |
| September 5 (M) | Holiday | ||
| September 7 (W) | Command shells; processes (Notes) | 2.1, 2.2 | Homework 1 (written problems): HTML, PDF (actually due 9/9) |
| September 12 (M) | Interprocess communication (Notes) | 2.3 | |
| September 14 (W) | Interprocess communication, continued (Notes) | Homework 1 (programming problem): HTML, PDF | |
| September 19 (M) | Interprocess communication, continued (Notes) | ||
| September 21 (W) | Classical IPC problems (Notes) | 2.5 | |
| September 26 (M) | Scheduling (Notes) | 2.4, 2.6, 2.7 | |
| September 28 (W) | Deadlocks (Notes) | 6 (skim) | Homework 2: HTML, PDF (optional programming problem accepted through 9/30 without penalty) |
| October 3 (M) | Memory management (Notes) | 3.1, 3.2 | |
| October 5 (W) | Memory management, continued (Notes) | 3.3 | Homework 3: HTML, PDF (accepted without penalty through 10/07, written problems not accepted past class time 10/10) |
| October 10 (M) | Review for midterm (Notes) | ||
| October 12 (W) | Midterm exam | (Review in HTML, PDF) | |
| October 17 (M) | Memory management, continued (Notes) | 3.4 | |
| October 19 (W) | Memory management, continued (Notes) | ||
| October 24 (M) | Memory management, continued (Notes) | 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 | |
| October 26 (W) | Memory management, continued (Notes) | 3.8, 3.9 | Homework 4: HTML, PDF |
| October 31 (M) | Filesystems (Notes) | 4.1, 4.2 | |
| November 2 (W) | Filesystems, continued (Notes) | 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 | Homework 5: HTML, PDF |
| November 7 (M) | Filesystems, continued (Notes) | ||
| November 9 (W) | I/O (Notes) | ||
| November 14 (M) | I/O, continued (Notes) | ||
| November 16 (W) | I/O, continued (Notes) | Homework 6: HTML, PDF | |
| November 21 (M) | A little about booting (Notes) | ||
| November 23 (W) | Holiday | ||
| November 25 (F) | Holiday | ||
| November 28 (M) | A little about security (Notes) | 9 (skim) | Homework 7: HTML, PDF |
| November 30 (W) | Short field trip (courtesy of ITS) (Notes) | ||
| December 5 (M) | Course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | ||
| December 12 (M), noon | Final | (Review in HTML, PDF) | |
| December 14 (W), 5pm | (Not a class or exam day) | Homework X (optional): HTML, PDF |