Course Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule for the course (subject to change).

Topic	Deadlines & Materials
Week 1: August 21 – 27
Operating Systems Overview Slides Recording Kernel-Based Virtual Machines (KVM) Slides Recording	Lab 0 Due ⋅ August 25 326 Class IDs SSH Setup Virtual Machines: VM Setup Guide VM Command Manual Working with your VM: Working Remotely Console Text Editors Arch Linux Wiki
Week 2: August 28 – September 3
Remembering how to C Slides Recording C-Ing Double, Quiz Prep, Lab Slides Recording	Lab 1 Due ⋅ August 30 Lab 2 Due ⋅ September 2 Reading: Quick C Tutorial Remote VSCode Remote Sublime TL;DR Pages Creating a Shell Alias git Commands Beej’s Debugging Guide Example vim & tmux configs
Week 3: September 4 – 10
Daemons, Processes, and Threads Slides Recording Touring procfs Slides Recording Lab: Reading Lines Recording	Lab 3 Due ⋅ September 9 Quiz 1 ⋅ September 8 Reading: OSTEP Ch 4 & 5 fork.c debug.c getopt: Usage Information getopt.c Usage Statement Guide next_token.c readdir.c Linus Torvalds on Threads
Week 4: September 11 – 17
System Calls Slides Recording System Call Lab, Project 1 Recording Lab: CPU Usage, Tasks Recording	Reading: OSTEP Ch 6
Week 5: September 18 – 24
Containers Slides Recording Task List Recording Lab: Task List Recording	Lab 4 Due ⋅ September 23 P1 Checkpoint Due ⋅ September 21 Arch Linux: Docker Example Dockerfile lockdown.sh
Week 6: September 25 – October 1
Inter-Process Communication Slides Recording Pipes Slides Recording Lab: Signals & Pipes Recording	Project 1 Due ⋅ September 28 Signals SIGKILL signal.c unkillable.c Pipes AT&T Archives: UNIX (Video) Julia Evans: Pipes io-redir.c isatty.c pipe.c
Week 7: October 2 – 8
Building a Shell Recording 1 Recording 2	Lab 5 Due ⋅ October 7 Quiz 2 ⋅ October 4
Week 8: October 9 – 15
CPU Scheduling Slides Recording	P2 Checkpoint 1 Due ⋅ October 13 Reading: OSTEP Ch 7, 8 Cooperative Threading: cooperate1.c cooperate2.c scheduler.sh
Week 9: October 16 – 22
Tues: No class, fall break! CPU Scheduling Recording	Lab 6 Due ⋅ October 21
Week 10: October 23 – 29
Multi-Level Feedback Queues Slides Recording CPU Scheduling Lab	P2 Checkpoint 2 Due ⋅ October 24
Week 11: October 30 – November 5
Tues: Project Work Day Recording Thurs: CPU Scheduling Lab Fri: Lab Cancelled	Lab 7 Due ⋅ November 4 Quiz 3 ⋅ November 3 Project 2 Due ⋅ November 2
Week 12: November 6 – 12
Memory Allocation Slides Recording 1 Recording 2 Recording 3	Reading: OSTEP Ch 12, 13, 15 mem.c mmap_reader.c mmap_writer.c Dan Luu’s Malloc Tutorial
Week 13: November 13 – 19
Segmentation Slides Recording Paging Slides Recording
Week 14: November 20 – 26
File Systems Slides Thurs, Fri: no class, Thanksgiving break!	P3 Checkpoint Due ⋅ November 23 Reading: OSTEP 37, 39, 40 Linux Storage Diagram
Week 15: November 27 – December 3
Files and Disks Disk Scheduling & SSDs	Lab 8 Due ⋅ November 30 P2 Code Review Due ⋅ December 1
Week 16: December 4 – 10
Course Wrap-up	Quiz 4 ⋅ December 6 Project 3 Due ⋅ December 7
Week 17: December 11 – 17
Final Quiz: Thursday, December 15 ⋅ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm