CSE 120: Principles of Operating Systems (Winter 2024)

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 5:00-5:50p, CENTR 115
Section B Discussion: Fri 6:00-6:50p, CENTR 115

Instructor

Joseph Pasquale

Teaching Assistants

Nirmal Agnihotri
Chenang Li
Om Pandiyaraju
Manav Ram
Nishant Ravindra
Fengyuan Wu

Tutors

Henry Feng
Jacky Hu
Tyler Lentz
Julian Li
Meihui Liu
Ben Xia

News

Welcome to CSE 120, Principles of Operating Systems! Our first lecture is on Mon, Jan 8, 2024.

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.

Introduction
Processes
Time-Sharing
Scheduling
Synchronization
Interprocess Communication
Deadlock
Memory Management
Memory Management II
Logical Memory
Logical Memory II
Virtual Memory
Virtual Memory II
File Systems
File Systems II
Input/Output
Advanced Topics

Grading

30% Midterm Exam (Feb 5 - tentative)
40% Final Exam (SATURDAY COMMON FINAL, Mar 16, 7:00PM-9:59PM, room TBD)
30% Programming assignments (four, each worth: 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%)

Textbooks

Required: Operating System Principles, by J. Pasquale, 2024 (price: FREE)

Resources

Discussion board: Piazza (CSE 120 students: please refer to Piazza for all course-related questions not addressed on this page)
Academic Integrity Policy: CSE120AIPW24.pdf