COMPSCI 110
Introduction to Operating Systems
Spring 2007

Announcements

Program 2 due date changed to Friday March 30 at 11:59pm. No further extensions will be considered.

Course Basics

Lecture
Time: Wed, Fri 1:15-2:30pm
Location: LSRC D106

Discussion
Time: Monday 1:15-2:30
Location: LSRC D106

Instructor: Carla Ellis
Office: D324 LSRC
Phone: 660-6523
Office Hours: regular times: Wed. 2:30-3:30 and by appointment.
Email:

TA: Ionut Constandache
Office: North building 021
Phone: 660-4015
Regular office hours: Tu 10:00-12.00
Email: ionut

Communications

• Newsgroup: on blackboard
• Anonymous feedback: http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/coursefeedback.html. Note that anonymous feedback is hard to respond to. Unless you really feel your comments must be anonymous, I encourage you to send mail to me directly so I can send a reply back to you.
• Class questionnaire (if you didn't fill one out during 1st class [doc format])
  

Resources and Amusements

• Textbook: Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition, by Andrew Tanenbaum
• Implementing threads/locks
• Intro to Linux
• Notes on C++
• Notes on C for Java programmers
• GNU C library
• GNU C++ library
• GDB debugger
• Make tutorial
• Recommended C books:
  • The C Programming Language
    Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
    Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-110362-8
  Recommended C++ book:
  • Thinking in C++ by Bruce Eckel
• Priority inversion in the Mars Pathfinder mission
• Crypto song
• Google paper: Ghemawat, S., Gobioff, H., and Leung, S. 2003. The Google file system. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (Bolton Landing, NY, USA, October 19 - 22, 2003). SOSP '03. ACM Press, New York, NY, 29-43. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/945445.945450
• Adding a Linux system call

Previous Terms of CPS 110

• Fall 2006 -- taught by Professor Cox
• Fall 2005 -- last time taught by Carla

Last updated April 1, 2007