Systems Programming

cs 241 Fall 2012

Course materials

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Schedule

Date	Event	Assignments	Readings and Notes
Mon Aug 27	Course introduction	Homework 1	How to study: a brief guide
Wed Aug 29	Introduction to C		Chapters 1, 2 C tutorial
Fri Aug 31	C No Evil
Mon Sep 3	Labor Day
Wed Sep 5	Operating systems	Homework 1 due MP1: C basics (zip)
Thu Sep 6	Discussion section (Solution)	Files
Fri Sep 7	System calls		I/O Syscall tutorial Chapter 3: UNIX survival skills for reference as needed
Mon Sep 10	Memory intro	MP1 due MP2: malloc (zip)	Chapter 21 (7.1-7.2)
Wed Sep 12	Memory Allocation		Chapter 21 (7.1-7.3)
Thu Sep 13	Discussion section
Fri Sep 14	Memory:malloc		Understanding fragmentation: 08-fragtest.c
Mon Sep 17	Memory: Heap Allocation
Wed Sep 19	Memory: Paging		Chapter 22 (8.1,8.2)
Thu Sep 20	Discussion section
Fri Sep 21	Memory: Page Tables
Mon Sep 24	Processes	MP2 due MP3: shell (zip)	Many examples of fork(): 12-forks.c
Wed Sep 26	Processes: System view
Thu Sep 27	Discussion section (zip)
Fri Sep 28	Processes: System view and Threads intro		Simple pthreads examples: 14-threads.c 14-join.c
Mon Oct 1	Threads: pthreads	MP3 due MP4: Multi-threaded Merge Sort (zip)	More pthreads examples: 15-hello_arg1.c 15-hello_arg2.c
Wed Oct 3	Threads: systems view
Thu Oct 4	Discussion section (zip)
Fri Oct 5	Scheduling
Mon Oct 8	Scheduling		Understanding time quanta: 18-quanta.c
Wed Oct 10	Synchronization		Simple synchronization problems: 18-counter.c
Thu Oct 11	Discussion section
Fri Oct 12	Synchronization Mechanisms	MP4 due
Mon Oct 15	Lecture: Midterm review Midterm Exam 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: (by last name)   A-L: 1404 SC   M-Z: 1320 DCL	MP5: scheduling	Midterm Study Guide: pdf,docx
Wed Oct 17	Semaphores, Mutexes and Condition Variables
Thu Oct 18	Discussion Section
Fri Oct 19	Semaphores, Mutexes and Condition Variables Classic Synchronization Problems		Producer-consumer solution with condition variables: 22-pc.c Readers-writers solution with reader priority 22-rw1.c Readers-writers solution with condition variables 22-rw2.c Readers-writers solution with condition variables and no starvation 22-rw3.c
Mon Oct 22	Classic Synchronization Problems	MP5 due MP6: parmake (zip) MPx: extra credit MP (zip)
Wed Oct 24	Classic Synchronization Problems II
Thu Oct 25	Discussion Section
Fri Oct 26	Deadlock
Mon Oct 29	Deadlock
Wed Oct 31	Deadlock solutions
Thu Nov 1	Discussion Section
Fri Nov 2	Deadlock solutions
Mon Nov 5	Interprocess communication	MP6 due MP7: MapReduce (zip)	Shared memory example: 26-shm.c Reader/writer using memory mapped files: 26-mmap.c Memory mapping pages: 26-mmap-test.c
Wed Nov 7	IPC: Pipes, FIFOs		Pipe example: 27-pipe.c Piped commands: 27-ls_wc.c
Thu Nov 8	Discussion section
Fri Nov 9	Select, poll, signals
Mon Nov 12	Signals, Introduction to Networking
Wed Nov 14	Networking, Network Programming		For a good tutorial and sample code, see http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/index.html
Thu Nov 15	Discussion section
Fri Nov 16	Network programming		Final Study Guide: pdf,docx Final Practice Exam: pdf, docx
Mon Nov 19	Thanksgiving Break
Wed Nov 21
Fri Nov 23
Mon Nov 26	More network programming	MP7 due MP8: WebServer (zip)
Wed Nov 28	Network applications
Thu Nov 29	Discussion section
Fri Nov 30	HTTP example, DNS and more		Sample code for push server
Mon Dec 3	Security	MPx Due
Wed Dec 5	Disks
Thu Dec 6	Discussion section
Fri Dec 7	File systems
Mon Dec 10	Filesystems	MP8 due
Wed Dec 12	Wrap up and Beyond CS241
Mon Dec 17	Final Exam 8:00am - 11:00am Location: Last names A - K: RAL 116 Last names L - Z: SC 1404