Florida State University

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CGS 5765 Principles of Operating Systems
COP 4610 Introduction to Operating Systems
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Professor

Andy Wang
Office: LOV 269
Office Hours: M-F 4-5
Email: awang@cs.fsu.edu

Teaching Assistant

Benjamin Buzbee
Office: LOV 105E
Office Hours: Wednesday 1-3
Email: (lastname)@cs.fsu.edu

Project 3 Due Thursday, November 29

Schedule

Week #	Material(s) Covered	Resources	To Do
Week 1	Slides Slides Experience Survey Syllabus Lab syllabus Useful tools Workstations Virtual Machine Lab Layout	E-Book From C++ to C C-examples: README Makefile numbers.txt Writing to a buffer Dangling reference File I/O Hostname Input in C Memory allocation Memory leaking Null-terminating strings Reading from a /proc file Recursive factorial Sorting String tokenization References Coding Style Reference	Fill out the group signup form. Email me room access data FSU Card number Random 4-digit pin Review your C
Week 2	Slides Slides Project 1: Project 1 Specification Head start guide VIM tutorial GIT tutorial C Review	References Emacs cheat sheet Git cheat sheets VIM cheat sheet	Learn an advanced editor (emacs, vim) Learn a version control system (git, hg) Learn how to detect memory leaks easily Start project 1
Week 3	Environment variable handling Shell command line parsing Shell job control	Slides Slides Virtual Box Other Q and A	Continue project 1 Make sure you've submitted a group form
Week 4	IO Redirection Pipes Background Processes Zombies	Slides Slides Other Q and A Examples Git Example	Contine project 1
Week 5	No class! Work on Project 1, due 10/9/12. Project 1 Help File Descriptors
Week 6	Kernel compilation System calls Project 2	Slides Slides Project 2 Project 2 Specification	Project 1 Due Next Week
Week 7 10/9/12	Kernel Modules procfs Example Custom Syscalls	P.S. It's not a dream...Project 1 due tonight! Slides Slides	Continue project 2 - complete parts 1 and 2
Week 8 10/16/12	More kernel modules Q & A	Module Resources Slides from Device Drivers Kernel Compiling Video Modules Video Slides KThreads, Mutexes	Project 2 parts 1 and 2 due tonight
Week 9 10/23/2012	K-Threads Locking Linked lists API Scheduling algorithms	Slides Slides References Syscall Video Example Syscall (From Video++)	Continue project 2
Week 10 10/30/2012	Project 3: Requirements Environment overview FAT32 overview Mounting and endianness	Slides Slides Project 3 Project 3 Specification File System Image FAT32 Specification	Continue project 2 (due next week) Start on Project 3
Week 11 11/5/2012	Project 2 Demo Signups Project 3 Overview	Slides Slides	Project 2 Link Sign-up for demonstration Start coding project 3
Week 12 11/13/2012	Demos Today
Week 13 11/20/2012	Project 3 Hints Pre-Thanksgiving "office hours"	Slides Slides	Continue project 3
Week 14: 11/14/2012	Last Recitation More on the FAT How to remove a file QA	Slides Have a good (linux-free?) break	Continue project 3 11/29/12