Course Schedule

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

Topic	Deadlines & Materials
Week 1: August 18 – 24
Introduction, OS Basics Lecture 1 Recording Exploring the OS Lecture 2 Recording	Reading: xv6 Ch. 1 xv6 book xv6 source code Working Remotely Example vim & tmux configs Remote VSCode Remote Sublime
Week 2: August 25 – 31
Remembering How to C Lecture 3 Recording Improving our C Library Lecture 4 Recording Booting Up Lecture 5	Lab 0 Due ⋅ August 26 Reading: xv6 Ch. 2, OSTEP Ch 4 & Ch 5 Quick C Tutorial Creating a Shell Alias TL;DR Pages git Commands boot.asm
Week 3: September 1 – 7
Monday: Holiday Processes and Daemons Lecture 6 Recording 1 Recording 2	Lab 1 Due ⋅ September 2 Reading: OSTEP Ch 4 & 5 fork.c Linus Torvalds on Threads
Week 4: September 8 – 14
System Calls Lecture 7 Recording Init & Program Loader init.c, exec.c, sh.c modifications Recording	Lab 2 Due ⋅ September 9 Quiz 1 ⋅ September 9 P1 Plan Due ⋅ September 9 Reading: OSTEP Ch 6 RISC-V Privilege Levels readdir.c
Week 5: September 15 – 21
Scripting, P1 Submission Recording Debugging, Syscall Tracing Recording Inter-Process Communication Lecture 8 Recording	Lab 3 Due ⋅ September 16 Reading: IPC, Signals Signals SIGKILL signal.c unkillable.c Beej’s Debugging Guide Debugging with GDB debug.c
Week 6: September 22 – 28
Pipes Lecture 9 Recording 1 Recording 2 Code Reviews and Quiz 2 Recording	Lab 4 Due ⋅ September 25 P1 Implementation Due ⋅ September 23 Reading: Review xv6 Ch. 1.3, Pipes Code Review Guidelines Pipes AT&T Archives: UNIX (Video) Julia Evans: Pipes io-redir.c pipe.c
Week 7: September 29 – October 5
Building a Shell Recording Lab & Project Overview Recording	Quiz 2 ⋅ September 30 P1 CR1 Due ⋅ September 30 P1 CR2 Due ⋅ September 30 next_token.c
Week 8: October 6 – 12
CPU Scheduling Lecture 10 Recording 1 Recording 2 Multi-Level Feedback Queues Lecture 11 Recording	Lab 5 Due ⋅ October 7 Reading: OSTEP Ch 7 scheduler.sh Cooperative Threading: cooperate1.c cooperate2.c
Week 9: October 13 – 19
Fall Break Lab 5 and P2 Grading Quiz 3 Study Guide Recording	P2 Part 1 Due ⋅ October 16
Week 10: October 20 – 26
Monday: Quiz 3 Memory Allocation Lecture 12	Lab 6 Due ⋅ October 21 Quiz 3 ⋅ October 21 Reading: OSTEP Ch 12, 13, 15 mem.c mmap_reader.c mmap_writer.c Dan Luu’s Malloc Tutorial
Week 11: October 27 – November 2
Segmentation
Week 12: November 3 – 9
Paging	P2 Part 2 Due ⋅ November 4
Week 13: November 10 – 16
Writing a Memory Allocator	Quiz 4 ⋅ November 11
Week 14: November 17 – 23
File Systems
Week 15: November 24 – 30
Files and Disks
Week 16: December 1 – 7
Disk Scheduling & SSDs	Quiz 5 ⋅ December 4
Week 17: December 8 – 14
Final Quiz: Monday, December 9 ⋅ 10:00am – 10:30am