Course Info for
CSE3303 - Operating Systems
3 credits

Instructor:    Assistant Prof. H. Fatih Ugurdag
Prerequisites: Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Organization, SW Lab I
Textbook:      Operating System Concepts, 7th Edition
               by Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne
               Wiley, 2005

Course Materials:    * ugurdag.com/cse3303
                     * groups.yahoo.com/group/cse3303
                         (Please sign up -- you will need a Yahoo id)

* What is this course about?
  This course is a core course on one of the pillars of computer
  systems: Operating Systems (OS). The course will make the student
  appreciate things he takes for granted such as process management,
  file systems, and so on. It will also help him make an entry into
  the domains of efficent use of OSes and OS design.

* Email List: cse3303@yahoogroups.com (sign up -- see above)

* Lecture Hours: 
    Section 1 => Tue 09:30-10:20, Thu 8:30-10:20
    Section 2 => Mon 08:30-09:20, Fri 8:30-10:20
    Section 3 => Tue 08:30-09:20, Wed 8:30-10:20

* Instructor Office Hours: Mon & Tue 9:30-10:30, Wed 10:30-11:30, Fri 11:30-12:30

* TA: Recep Gokceli

* Grading: (see the homepage)

Syllabus: (subject to change)
  Week# 1.  Course introduced.
            Movie: Pirates of Silicon Valley.
  Week# 2.  History of PCs.
            What is an OS?
  Week# 3.  History of OSes and early computers.
            Multi-tasking.
  Week# 4.  Multi-tasking cont'd.
            HW aspects: dual mode, memory hierarchy.
  Week# 5.  Textbook chapters covered so far reviewed.
            Distributed systems. Real-time systems.
            Layered approach. Drivers. BIOS.
  Week# 6.  Must-know concepts introduced so far reviewed.
            PCI. DMA. How to pick tq. CPU burst estimation.
  Week# 7.  Piping. RAMDISK. Parent & child processes. UNIX shells and Ampersand.
            CPU Scheduling. Queue, FIFO, Stack. Starvation.
            Compiling & Linking. Static & Dynamic Libraries.
  Week# 8.  Linking demonstrated. MT1.
  Week# 9.  IPC. Semaphores.
  Week# 10. Dining Philosophers. Deadlock. Banker's Algorithm.
  Week# 11. File systems.
  Week# 12. Linux. MT2.
  Week# 13. Linux cont'd.
  Week# 14. Linux cont'd.