Operating System Concepts 460

Instructor: Ahmed Tamrawi

Class Meets: MW 12:30 - 14:00 in H401

Syllabus: Revision 1

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Course Schedule

Lecture Notes

• Course Overview
• Operating Systems Structures
• Once Upon a Process
• Once Upon a Process
• Hey Process, Can we chat?
• Process Synchronization
• A Thread Story
• Main Memory

Sample Exams

• First Exam: Sample
• Second Exam: Sample
• Final Exam: Sample

Lab Tasks

• Lab 1: A Crash Course in C
• Lab 2: String Manipulation
• Lab 3: Unix Processes
• Lab 4: CPU Scheduling Algorithms
• Lab 5: IPC Using Pipes
• Lab 6: IPC Using Named Pipes and Shared Memory
• Lab 7: File I/O

Lab Quizes and exams

• Quiz 1
• Quiz 2
• Quiz 3
• Quiz 4
• Lab Final Exam