CSE 120: Principles of Operating Systems (Winter 2018)

Lecture and Discussion Times

Section A Lectures: Mon/Wed 5:00-6:20, CENTR 119
Section B Lectures: Mon/Wed 6:30-7:50, CENTR 119
Section A Discussion: Fri 6:00-6:50p, CENTR 115
Section B Discussion: Fri 7:00-7:50p, CENTR 115

Instructor

Joseph Pasquale

Teaching Assistants

Ash Sheshan
Bolun Zhang
Ed Wong
Keith Ballew
Nelson Ho
Yibo Guo

Tutors

Andrew Yang
Kevin Yao
Hannah Faulstick
Vincent Yao
Yunjia Wang

Description

This is an introductory course on the principles of operating systems. Topics include processes, scheduling, synchronization, memory management, virtual memory, file systems, I/O, protection, security, networking, and distributed systems. There is a significant systems programming component to the course, where students are required to design and implement some basic kernel functions (context switching, scheduling, synchronization) and a user-level thread package. The course is organized of the following:

Lectures: the lectures comprise the core material, and are based on the instructor's lecture notes that are provided to the students
Discussion: the discussion sections are led by the TA, and may be organized as discussions on specific topics or question/answer sessions
Readings: the readings in the textbook supplement the lecture notes
Labs: there are four lab programming assignments (in C) using UMIX, a user-mode UNIX-based operating system developed by the instructor
Exams: there is a midterm exam and a final exam (both closed-book) covering the material in the lectures and the labs

Lectures

The notes for each lecture will be posted one day prior to that lecture's class.

Jan 8: Introduction
Jan 10: Processes
Jan 17: Time-Sharing
Jan 22: Scheduling
Jan 24: Synchronization
Jan 29: Interprocess Communication
Jan 31: Deadlock
Feb 5: MIDTERM
Feb 7: Memory Management
Feb 12: Logical Memory
Feb 14: Virtual Memory
Feb 14: File Systems I
Feb 21: File Systems II
Feb 26: Input/Output System
Feb 28: Protection Mar 5: Security
Mar 7: Networks
Mar 12: Distributed Systems
Mar 14: Advanced Topics

Grading

30% Midterm Exam (Mon, Feb 5, in class)
40% Final Exam (SATURDAY COMMON FINAL, Mar 17, 3:00PM-5:59PM, Section A: CENTR 115 and Section B: CENTR 119))
30% Programming assignments (four, each worth: 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%)

Textbook

Operating System Concepts, 9th Ed., by Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne; Wiley, 2013 (8th ed. is also ok)

Resources

Discussion board: Piazza (CSE 120 students: please refer to Piazza for all course-related questions not addressed on this page)