Last Updated: 2021-05-07 Fri 13:27

CSCI 4061: Course Schedule and Materials

University of Minnesota
Spring 2020

Course Schedule and Materials

All materials are subject to change and update. All materials are marked with dates of last updated.

Week Dates Lecture Links Homework Lab Solutions Projects Stevens/Rago Silberschatz
    Course Mechanics Mechanics Video            
1 1/20 Intro, Admin Slides Code         Ch 1, 2 Ch 1
                   
2 1/25 Unix Basics Slides Code 01. Makefiles 01. Setup HW01 Lab01      
      Videos            
    Processes and Forking Slides Code         Ch 8, 9.8 Ch 2
                   
3 2/01 Processes Environment Slides Code 02. fork/wait 02. Fork HW02 Lab02   Ch 7 Ch 3.1-3
      Videos            
4 2/08 Low-level Input / Output Slides Code 03. WNOHANG/append 03. realloc() HW03 Lab03   Ch 3, 4, 15.2 Ch 13
      Videos            
5 2/15 Files / Directories Slides Code 04. Pipe/Redirection 04. dup2() HW04 Lab04   Ch 5, 14.4 Ch 11
      Videos            
6 2/22 Mon: Review Videos 05. Exam Review 05. Review HW05 P1 Due 02/22    
    Wed 2/24: Exam 1 Practice Solution            
                   
7 3/01 Virtual Memory Slides Code 06. Files/Dirs 06. stat() HW06 Lab06   Ch 14.8 Ch 9
      Videos            
8 3/08 Virtual Memory Wrapup   07. Dirs/pmap 07. nftw() HW07 Lab07   Ch 10  
      Videos            
9 3/15 Signals Slides Code 08. mmap() / Signals 08. Signals HW08 Lab08      
      Videos            
10 3/22 IPC: Pipes, FIFOs Slides Code 09. FIFOs/Protocols 09. Pipelines HW09 Lab09   Ch 15.1-5 Ch 3.4-7
      Videos            
11 3/29 General IPC Facilities Slides Code 10. Message Queues 10. FIFOs HW10 Lab10 P2 Due 03/31 Ch 15.6-12 Ch 5
      Videos            
  4/05 Spring Break: No class              
                   
12 4/12 Mon: Review Videos None: Exam Review 11. Semaphores Lab11      
    Wed 4/14: Exam 2 Practice Solution            
13 4/19 Threads Slides Code 12. poll() / Threads 12. Threads HW12 Lab12   Ch 11 Ch 4
    Thread Synchronization Videos         Ch 12 Ch 5
                   
14 4/26 Network Programming Slides Code 13. Sockets 13. Sockets HW13 Lab13   Ch 16  
      Videos            
15 5/03 Last Lecture Slides Videos       P2 Due 05/04   Ch 8,9
                   
  5/10 Final Exam              
    Mon 5/10 4:00-6:00pm              

Readings Key

  • [Stevens/Rago] : Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd edition (REQUIRED) by Stevens and Rago
  • [Robbins/Robbins] : UNIX systems programming : communication, concurrency, and threads (Optional) by Robbins and Robbins
  • [Silberschatz] : Operating System Concepts, 9th Edition (Optional) by Silberschatz et al.

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Author: Chris Kauffman (kauffman@umn.edu)
Date: 2021-05-07 Fri 13:27