CSE 120: Principles of Operating Systems (Winter 2019)

Lecture and Discussion Times

Section A Lectures: Mon/Wed 5:00-6:20, CENTR 115
Section B Lectures: Mon/Wed 6:30-7:50, CENTR 115
Section A Discussion: Fri 6:00-6:50p, PCYNH 106
Section B Discussion: Fri 7:00-7:50p, PCYNH 106

Instructor

Joseph Pasquale

Teaching Assistants

Ujwal Bachiraju
Walker Carlson
Vijay Viswanath
Ziying Xue

Tutors

Ajeya Rengarajan
Litao Qiao
Tejas Gopal
Xiqiang Lin
Zaki Siddiqui
Lin Zhou
Emily Chou
Susmitha Kalidindi
Shangqing Gu
Rohan Bhargava
Curtis Tong
Lihao He

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 7: Introduction - Lecture 1
Jan 9: Processes
Jan 14: Time-Sharing
Jan 16: Scheduling
Jan 23: Synchronization
Jan 28: Interprocess Communication
Jan 30: Deadlock
Feb 4: MIDTERM
Feb 6: Memory Management
Feb 11: Logical Memory
Feb 13: Virtual Memory
Feb 20: File Systems I
Feb 25: File Systems II
Feb 27: Input/Output System
Mar 4: Protection
Mar 6: Security
Mar 11: Networks
Mar 13: Distributed Systems

Grading

30% Midterm Exam (Mon, Feb 4, in class)
40% Final Exam (SATURDAY COMMON FINAL, Mar 16, 3:00PM-5:59PM, Section A: CENTER 115 and Section B: CENTER 119)
30% Programming assignments (four, each worth: 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%)

Textbook

Operating System Concepts, 10th Ed., by Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne; Wiley, 2019

Resources

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