Course Schedule

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

Topic	Deadlines & Materials
Week 1: January 21 – 27
Introduction, OS Basics Slides Recording Remembering how to C Slides Recording Working Remotely Recording	Reading: xv6 Ch. 1 xv6 book xv6 source code Working Remotely Quick C Tutorial Creating a Shell Alias git Commands Example vim & tmux configs
Week 2: January 28 – February 3
Improving our C Library Recording Booting Up Slides Recording Processes and Daemons Slides Recording	Lab 0 Due ⋅ January 29 Lab 1 Due ⋅ January 29 Reading: xv6 Ch. 2, OSTEP Ch 4 & Ch 5 TL;DR Pages Debugging with GDB logger.h boot.asm fork.c
Week 3: February 4 – 10
System Calls Slides Recording GitHub Workflow Recording Debugging with GDB	Lab 2 Due ⋅ February 5 RISC-V Privilege Levels readdir.c
Week 4: February 11 – 17
Quiz Study Guide Recording The Init System The Program Loader	Lab 3 Due ⋅ February 12 Quiz 1 ⋅ February 14 P1 Plan Due ⋅ February 12
Week 5: February 18 – 24
Monday: No class, Presidents' Day Inter-Process Communication Slides Recording Friday: Project Check	Lab 4 Due ⋅ February 21 Reading: IPC, Signals Signals SIGKILL signal.c unkillable.c
Week 6: February 25 – March 2
Monday: No class Pipes Slides Recording 1 Recording 2	P1 Implementation Due ⋅ February 26 Reading: Review xv6 Ch. 1.7, Pipes Code Review Guidelines Pipes AT&T Archives: UNIX (Video) Julia Evans: Pipes io-redir.c pipe.c
Week 7: March 3 – 9
Quiz 2 Building a Shell Recording 1 Recording 2	Quiz 2 ⋅ March 4 P1 CRs Due ⋅ March 8 next_token.c
Week 8: March 10 – 16
Spring Break!
Week 9: March 17 – 23
CPU Scheduling Intro Slides Recording Basic Scheduling Slides (Same as Previous) Recording	Reading: OSTEP Ch 7 scheduler.sh
Week 10: March 24 – 30
Monday: Lab & P2 Grading Project Hints Recording	Lab 5 Due ⋅ March 25 P2 Part 1 Due ⋅ March 25
Week 11: March 31 – April 6
Multi-Level Feedback Queues Slides Recording 1 Recording 2 Quiz and Work Time (Friday)	Lab 6 Due ⋅ April 1 Quiz 3 ⋅ April 5 P2 Part 2 Due ⋅ April 3 Reading: OSTEP Ch 8
Week 12: April 7 – 13
Memory Allocation Slides Recording 1 Recording 2	Reading: OSTEP Ch 12, 13, 15 mem.c mmap_reader.c mmap_writer.c Dan Luu’s Malloc Tutorial
Week 13: April 14 – 20
Segmentation Slides Paging
Week 14: April 21 – 27
File Systems	Quiz 4 ⋅ April 22
Week 15: April 28 – May 4
Files and Disks Disk Scheduling & SSDs
Week 16: May 5 – 11
Course Wrap-up	Quiz 5 ⋅ May 6
Week 17: May 12 – 18
Final Quiz: Monday, May 13 ⋅ 10:00am – 12:00pm