CE 155 - Operating Systems
2nd Semester, SY 2003-2004
Sections A and B

Announcements

• You can now view your grades online.
• Practical Exercise 2: Socket and Multi-Threaded Programming due 26 February 2004
• Practical Exercise 2 specifications now available - 15 February 2004
• Long Test 1 (Chapters 1 to 3) - 16 January 2004
• Christmas Break - Classes resume 5 January 2004
• No class on 8 December 2003 - School Holiday - Immaculate Conception
• No class on 26 November 2003 - National Holiday
• Practical Exercise 1: Unix Shell Scripting due 17 December 2003
• Practical Exercise 1 specifications now available - 22 November 2003
• No class on 21 November 2003 - ACP Day
• Classes begin 12 November 2003

Schedule

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 1:30-2:20 PM (Section A) / 2:30-3:20 PM (Section B), F-115 Faura Hall

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Course Description

This is an introductory course on the internal operations and fundamental principles of modern operating systems. Specifically, this course will cover core concepts such as processes and threads, deadlocks, memory management, and file systems. This course also serves as an introduction to the UNIX/Linux operating systems. Assigned programming exercises will introduce the student to the basics of UNIX/Linux shell and system programming.

Text

Tanenbaum, Andrew. "Modern Operating Systems" 2nd ed.
Book Website - contains PowerPoint slides

Syllabus [PDF]

Practical Exercises

Practical Exercise 1 - Bash Shell Scripting [PDF]
Practical Exercise 2 - Socket and Multi-Threaded Programming [PDF]

Programming Examples

Compiling and Running C programs in Linux
fork Example - Process Creation/Termination
pthread Example - Thread Creation/Termination
Signals Example - Signals Programming
Semaphore Example
Sockets Example

Last updated on 01-Feb-2004