TAs Flavio Junqueira and Mark Smith. Office hours Monday 4 - 5 and Friday 11 - 1 in the OSTL.

Classroom Center Hall 212 8:00 - 9:20 AM.

Text  Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum. This text is eight years old and has been used in previous quarters. You should be able to find it at a discounted price at the various bookstores on campus.

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Overview This course covers the principles of operating systems. Of particular importance is concurrency, processor multiplexing, memory multiplexing, and communications.

Grading Your grade for this course will be computed as follows:
 

Homeworks	20%
Midterm	25%
Final	25%
Programming projects	20%
Quizzes	10%

• Homeworks There will be four homework assignments. They will be distributed on the web. Please e-mail your answers (ascii preferred, postscript and pdf accepted) to marzullo@cs.ucsd.edu.
• Midterm The midterm will be given in class on 22 February 2000. It will be an open textbook and open notes test. As usual, this means that I'll ask questions that are not easily answered by looking them up in the textbook. The homeworks are a good approximation of what the midterm (and final) questions will look like.
• Final When we know when the final is, we'll post the time here. It will be an open textbook and open notes test.
• Projects There are two programming projects, the details for which can be found here.
• Quizzes There will be around five to ten "pop quizzes" that will be given throughout the quarter. They'll be given at the beginning of the class period. They aren't worth a lot, and so if you tend to sleep in late then you could miss all of them, do very well on the other evaluations (exams, homeworks, and programming projects), and still get a good grade. I do recommend that you make it in for the quizzes, though...

last edited 18 January 2000 by kam