- Syllabus with requirements and grading policies
- Handin instructions for MPs and homeworks
- Recordings of lectures
- Submit anonymous feedback
- Honors section information
Course materials
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Schedule
| Date | Event | Assignments | Readings and Notes |
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| Wed Jan 18 | Course introduction | Homework 1 | How to study: a brief guide |
| Fri Jan 20 | Introduction to C | Chapters 1, 2 C tutorial |
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| Mon Jan 23 | Introduction to C | Additional C reference slides | |
| Wed Jan 25 | Operating systems | Homework 1 due MP1: C basics (zip) |
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| Thu Jan 26 | Discussion section (ppt) | Files | |
| Fri Jan 27 | System calls | I/O Syscall tutorial Chapter 3: UNIX survival skills for reference as needed |
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| Mon Jan 30 | Memory intro | MP1 due tomorrow | Chapter 21 (7.1-7.2) |
| Wed Feb 1 | Memory intro | MP2: malloc |
Chapter 21 (7.1-7.3) |
| Thu Feb 2 | Discussion section: ppt, pdf | ||
| Fri Feb 3 | Memory: heap allocation | ||
| Mon Feb 6 | Memory: heap allocation | ||
| Wed Feb 8 | Memory: paging | Chapter 22 (8.1,8.2) | |
| Thu Feb 9 | Discussion section: ppt, pdf, Files | ||
| Fri Feb 10 | Memory: paging | poll | |
| Mon Feb 13 | Processes | MP2 due tomorrow | poll, code |
| Wed Feb 15 | Processes: System view | MP3: shell (zip) | |
| Thu Feb 16 | Discussion section (pptx,pdf) | ||
| Fri Feb 17 | Processes: System view and Threads intro | code | |
| Mon Feb 20 | Threads: pthreads | MP3 due tomorrow | poll |
| Wed Feb 22 | Threads: systems view | MP4: parallel sort (zip) | poll |
| Thu Feb 23 | Discussion section: ppt, pdf | ||
| Fri Feb 24 | Threads wrap-up | pre-lecture quiz, primality.c, primality-solution.c | |
| Mon Feb 27 | Scheduling | mid-semester feedback | |
| Wed Feb 29 | Scheduling, Synchronization intro | quantum.c | |
| Thu Mar 1 | Discussion section | ||
| Fri Mar 2 | Synchronization | MP4 due | Guess the value, goodcounter.c |
| Mon Mar 5 | Midterm review | study guide, practice exam | |
| Tue Mar 6 | Midterm exam, 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Location by last name: A-Liang: 1404 SC Lim-Z: 1320 DCL Grade distribution |
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| Wed Mar 7 | MP overview (ppt) | MP5: scheduling (zip) | |
| Thu Mar 8 | Discussion section cancelled | ||
| Fri Mar 9 | Class cancelled for EOH | ||
| Mon Mar 12 | How to build a semaphore (pptx) | MP5 due tomorrow | |
| Wed Mar 14 | How to use a semaphore (pptx) | MP6: parallel make (zip) | questions, rw1.c |
| Thu Mar 15 | Discussion section: ppt, pdf, zip | ||
| Fri Mar 16 | Condition variables (pptx) | questions, pc.c, rw2.c, rw3.c | |
| Spring Break | |||
| Mon Mar 26 | Deadlocks (pptx) | ||
| Wed Mar 28 | Deadlock solutions (pptx) | questions | |
| Thu Mar 29 | Discussion section: ppt, pdf, zip | ||
| Fri Mar 30 | Deadlock solutions (pptx) | ||
| Mon Apr 2 | Interprocess communication | MP6 due tomorrow | shm.c, mmap.c |
| Wed Apr 4 | IPC: Pipes, FIFOs (pptx) | MP7: MapReduce (zip) | pipe.c, ls_wc.c |
| Thu Apr 5 | Discussion section: ppt, pdf | ||
| Fri Apr 6 | Select, poll, signals (pptx) | questions, pipestdin.c, BlockSIGINT.c | |
| Mon Apr 9 | Signals (pptx) | signal-v1.c, signal-v2.c | |
| Wed Apr 11 | Networking (pptx) | ||
| Thu Apr 12 | Discussion section pdf, ppt | ||
| Fri Apr 13 | Network programming (pptx) | ||
| Mon Apr 16 | Network applications (pptx) | MP7 due tomorrow | |
| Wed Apr 18 | Network applications (pptx) | MP8: web server | |
| Thu Apr 19 | Discussion section pdf, ppt | ||
| Fri Apr 20 | DNS and more (pptx) | server.c | |
| Mon Apr 23 | Disks and I/O (pptx) | questions | |
| Wed Apr 25 | I/O (pptx) | ||
| Thu Apr 26 | Discussion section pdf, ppt | ||
| Fri Apr 27 | I/O (pptx) | questions, copy.c | |
| Mon Apr 30 | Filesystems (pptx) | MP8 due tomorrow | |
| Wed May 2 | Wrap up and Beyond CS241 | ||
| May 11 | Final Exam, 1:30 - 4:30 pm | Location by last name: A-Liang: 151 Loomis Lim-Z: 1404 SC practice exam (docx), study guide (docx) Grade distribution, histogram |
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