CS 3750 Schedule

( Latest Revision -- Wed Nov 20 11:46:16 PST 2002 )

11/20/2002: Rescheduled and modified information on quiz #3.
11/18/2002: Inserted due date for homework #4
11/12/2002: Inserted dates for program #2
11/03/2002: no blue book on second exam
11/02/2002: Changed chapters covered on second exam (6-9)
10/27/2002: Inserted due date for Program #1
10/27/2002: Removed due date for HW #4 (will add later)
10/08/2002: Changed due date for HW #3
09/16/2002: Updated information about 10/11/2002

WORK SCHEDULE FOR CS 3750 -- Fall 2002

This schedule is a "draft" document. It is subject to change. Keep checking the class web space for the latest version.

You will find weekly reading assignments here. The reading assignments set a pace for you. You are supposed to read the entire text in one semester. The pace is adequate to allow you to do that. The pace will also keep you ahead of what I am covering in lecture. In class we will devote some time to discussion of what you are currently reading, but we may have to spend much or most of the time on something else. You should check here each week to see what will be covered in the lecture material, and you should review that material to prepare for the lecture.

Lectures will probably lag behind the reading assignments for most of the semester. At the end of the semester, lectures will skip from topic to topic, and perhaps finally catch up with the reading assignments.

I will synchronize homework assignments pretty well with the assigned reading. In class or office hours, feel free to ask questions related to the current homework.

Before you read a chapter in the book, first read the assigned homework problems for that chapter. As you read the chapter, gather the maximal amount of relevant information to use in your answers to the problems.

WEEK #1: Sep 04 - Sep 06

Week #1 is a short week, due to the first day of school falling on Wednesday, September 04.
Reading Assignment: chapter #1 (Introduction), chapter #2 (Computer-System Structures), and (part of) chapter #3 (Operating-System Structures)
Lecture Topic(s): chapters #1-3
I will distribute course handouts on the first day of class. You can print copies of the document you are reading now (the course schedule) and the course description located here. Please carefully read the course description this week. If you need a computer account or help with your username and password, please fill out and submit one of the account service forms. After you fill out the form you can e-mail it to me or print it and give it to me.
Try doing a "Hello World" tutorial on one of the Sun Ultra computers in the Computer Science Lab. Ask me for help next week if you have any problems.

WEEK #2: Sep 09 - Sep 13

Professor Sarraille will be in Long Beach all day on Friday, Sept. 13, performing duties as a member of the CSU Statewide Academic Senate.
Reading Assignment: chapter #1 (Introduction), chapter #2 (Computer-System Structures), and (part of) chapter #3 (Operating-System Structures)
Assignment: Retrieve homework #1 assignment from web space. Get started on the assignment.
Lecture Topic(s): chapters #1-3

WEEK #3: Sep 16 - Sep 20

Reading Assignment: (rest of) chapter #3 (Operating-System Structures) and chapter #4 (Processes)
Lecture Topic(s): chapters 3 and 4
DUE: Homework Assignment #1, Ch1-2, Monday, September 16

WEEK #4: Sep 23 - Sep 27

Reading Assignment: chapter #5 (Threads) and chapter #6 (CPU Scheduling)
Lecture Topic(s): chapters 5 and 6

WEEK #5: Sep 30 - Oct 04

Reading Assignment: chapter #7 (Process Synchronization) and some of chapter #8 (Deadlocks)
Lecture Topic(s): Process Synchronization
DUE: Homework Assignment #2, Ch #3-6, Monday, September 30

WEEK #6: Oct 07 - Oct 11

Reading Assignment: chapter #8 (Deadlocks) and chapter #9 (Memory Management)
I'll hand back graded homework and give you a chance to ask questions about the material to be covered on the exam -- chapters 1-5.
In-Term Exam #1 on chapters 1-5, Friday, Oct 11: Please bring a small blue book.
Lecture Topic(s): Readings and Process Synchronization

WEEK #7: Oct 14 - Oct 18

Reading Assignment: chapter #10 (Virtual Memory)
Lecture Topic(s): Readings and Concurrency and Deadlocks
No class Wednesday -- Columbus Day

WEEK #8: Oct 21 - Oct 25

DUE: Homework Assignment #3, Ch #7, Monday October 21
Reading Assignment: chapter #11 (File-System Interface) and chapter #12 (File-System Implementation)
Lecture Topic(s): Readings and Concurrency and Deadlocks

WEEK #9: Oct 28 - Nov 01

Reading Assignment: chapter #13 (I/O Systems) and some of chapter #14 (Mass-Storage Structure)
Lecture Topic(s): Readings, Memory Management and Virtual Memory

WEEK #10: Nov 04 - Nov 08

Reading Assignment: (the rest of) chapter #14 (Mass-Storage Structure) and chapter #15 (Distributed System Structures)
Lecture Topic(s): Readings, Memory Management, and Virtual Memory
In-Term Exam #2 on chapters 6-9, Friday, Nov 08: Please do not bring a blue book.
Professor Sarraille will be in Long Beach Wednesday, November 6 through Friday, November 8, performing duties as a member of the CSU Statewide Academic Senate. Do lab work on Wednesday. Take exam on Friday.
DUE: final version of program #1, Friday, November 08.

WEEK #11: Nov 11 - Nov 15

No Class Monday -- Veteran's Day
Reading Assignment: chapter #16 (Distributed File Systems) and chapter #17 (Distributed Coordination)
Lecture Topic(s): Memory Management and Virtual Memory

WEEK #12: Nov 18 - Nov 22

Reading Assignment: chapter #18 (Protection) and chapter #19 (Security),
Lecture Topic(s): Virtual Memory and File System Implementation

WEEK #13: Nov 25 - Nov 29

DUE: psuedo-code description of the algorithm for your solution to program #2, Monday, Nov 25.
Reading Assignment: chapter #20 (The Linux System), chapter #21 (Windows 2000), and chapter #22 (Historical Perspective)
Lecture Topic(s): File System Implementation and Distributed Systems.
No Class Friday Nov 29 -- Thanksgiving Holiday

WEEK #14: Dec 02 - Dec 06

DUE: final version of program #2, Monday, Dec 02.
DUE: homework #4, Wednesday, Dec 04
Lecture Topic(s): Distributed Systems.

"WEEK #15": Dec 9

Monday December 9 is the last class day of the semester.
In-Term Exam #3 on chapters 10, 12, 15-17, Monday, December 09: Please bring a small blue book "just in case" but I'm not sure if you'll need it. The test will probably be mostly multiple choice and "practical problems" -- things like testing a system for safety, counting page faults, doing address translation, simulating a storage-allocation algorithm, and so forth.