Teaching Team for This Class

Instructor: Dr. Xiuwen Liu, Office: LOV 166, Phone: 644-0050, Email: liux@cs.fsu.edu, Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 02:30-04:00PM or by appointments.

Teaching Assistant: Yong Chen, LOV 105D, Email: yongchen@cs.fsu.edu, Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 4:00-5:00pm.

Useful links and online information

• Gary Nutt's supporting page for his textbook: Operating Systems, Addison Wesley Longman, 2003.
• Charles Crowley's supporting page for his textbook: Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach, IRWIN, 1997.
• Avi Silberschatz and Peter Galvin's supporting page for their textbook: Operating Systems Concepts, Fifth edition, Addison-Wesley Longman, 1998.
• Free UNIX Source Code (BSD version). This site also offers many source codes for many popular UNIX applications. You can learn many programming techniques by reading other's codes.
• Unix Information at Department of Computer Science, Florida State University.
• Unix Online Man Pages, at Department of Computer Science, Florida State University.
• Google Web Search Engine
• POSIX Threads Programming
• Pthreads Tutorial
• Signals Tutorial
• Documentation on The LinuxThreads Library
• Some examples on how to use the pthread library for making threaded programs

Important dates

• This class will be offered Fall 2003 Tuesday and Thursday 5:15-6:30PM at LOV 101.
• Final exam will be from 5:30-7:30PM on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003.

News and Announcements

Handouts

• Oct. 10, 2003: You have to demonstrate your first programming assignment (Lab 1) on or before Oct. 28, 2003. After that, your program will be graded based on your report, source code, and test results, assuming the worst case if there are any questions. So if you have not signed up, please do so by sending an email to Yong Chen at yongchen@cs.fsu.edu.

Solutions

• Solutions to Quiz #1  (as word doc).
• Solutions to Homework #1   (as word doc).
• Solutions to Homework #2   (as word doc).
• Solutions to Quiz #2  (as word doc).
• Solutions to Homework #3   (as word doc).
• Solutions to Homework #4   (as word doc).
• Solutions to Homework #5   (as word doc).
• Solutions to Quiz #3  (as word doc).

Last modified on August 23, 2003