| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 22 (W) | About the course (Notes) | ||
| August 27 (M) | Overview and history of operating systems (Notes) | 1.1, 1.2 | |
| August 29 (W) | Hardware functionality; operating system concepts and structures; system calls (Notes) | 1.3, 1.4 (skim), 1.5, 1.7 (skim), 1.8 (skim), 1.9 | |
| September 3 (M) | Holiday | ||
| September 5 (W) | System calls; command shells; processes (Notes) | 1.6, 2.1 | |
| September 10 (M) | Processes and threads; interprocess communication (Notes) | 2.2, 2.3 | Homework 1 (written problems): HTML, PDF |
| September 12 (W) | Interprocess communication, continued (Notes) | Homework 1 (programming problem): HTML, PDF | |
| September 17 (M) | Interprocess communication, continued (Notes) | ||
| September 19 (W) | Classical IPC problems (Notes) | 2.5 | |
| September 24 (M) | Scheduling (Notes) | 2.4, 2.6, 2.7 | Homework 2 (written problems): HTML, PDF |
| September 26 (W) | Deadlocks (Notes) | 6 (skim) | Homework 2 (programming problems): HTML, PDF |
| October 1 (M) | No class | ||
| October 3 (W) | A little about POSIX threads; more about classical IPC problems (Notes) | Homework 3 (written problems): HTML, PDF | |
| October 8 (M) | Review for midterm (Notes) | Homework 3 (programming problem): HTML, PDF | |
| October 10 (W) | Midterm exam | (Review in HTML, PDF) | |
| October 15 (M) | Memory management (Notes) | 3.1, 3.2 | |
| October 17 (W) | Memory management, continued (Notes) | 3.3 | |
| October 22 (M) | Memory management, continued (Notes) | 3.4 | |
| October 24 (W) | Memory management, continued (Notes) | 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 | Homework 4: HTML, PDF |
| October 29 (M) | Memory management, continued; a little about this and that in Linux (Notes) | ||
| October 31 (W) | Filesystems (Notes) | 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 | |
| November 5 (M) | Filesystems, continued (Notes) | Homework 5 (written problems): HTML, PDF | |
| November 7 (W) | I/O (Notes) | 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 (skim), 5.9, 5.10 | Homework 5 (programming problems): HTML, PDF |
| November 12 (M) | I/O, continued (Notes) | ||
| November 14 (W) | I/O, continued (Notes) | ||
| November 19 (M) | A little about the boot process (Notes) | Homework 6: HTML, PDF | |
| November 21 (W) | Holiday | ||
| November 26 (M) | A little about security (Notes) | 9 (skim) | Homework 7: HTML, PDF |
| November 28 (W) | A little about virtualization (Notes) | 7 (skim if interested) | |
| December 3 (M) | Review for final; course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | ||
| December 12 (W) (Not a class day) | Final deadline for all homeworks except extra-credit (nothing except extra-credit problems accepted past this date) | ||
| December 13 (Th), 3:30pm | Final exam | (Review in HTML, PDF) | |
| December 14 (F), noon | (Not a class day) | Homework X: HTML, PDF (not accepted late) |