WITS COMS3010: Operating Systems, Spring 2019
Tentative schedule
| Week | Day | Topic | Reading | HW Assigned | Event | Tutorial Handouts | Extra resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 26/07 | Introduction to Operating Systems | A&D Ch1 | |||||
| 2 | Wed 02/08 | Introduction to Process | A&D Ch2 | HW0 | ||||
| 3 | Wed 09/08 | PUBLIC HOLIDAY | ||||||
| 4 | Wed 16/08 | Introduction to Process -- continued | A&D Ch2 and Ch3 | HW1 | HW0 due | |||
| 5 | Wed 23/08 | Introduction to I/O and filesystems | A&D 11.1--11.2 | Tutorial1 (Solutions) | code from lecture | |||
| 6 | Wed 30/08 | Introduction to concurrency and threads | AD 4.1-4.5, 4.9 | code from lecture | ||||
| 7 | Wed 06/09 | Thread coordination | A&D 5.1-5.4 | Tutorial2 (Solutions) | code from lecture | |||
| 8 | STUDY BREAK | |||||||
| 9 | Wed 20/09 | Scheduling | A&D 7.1 | HW2 | HW1 due | |||
| 10 | Wed 27/09 | MIDTERM Q&A | Midterm test on Thursday at 12:30 | |||||
| 11 | 04/10 | Virtual memory I | A&D 8.1-8.4 | |||||
| 12 | 11/10 | Virtual memory II | A&D 8.1-8.4 | Tutorial3 | ||||
| 13 | 18/10 | Caching and virtual memory | A&D Ch9 | HW2 due | ||||
| 14 | 25/11 | Filesystems and persistent storage | A&D Ch11, Ch12, Ch13 | |||||
| 15 | 16/11 | FINAL EXAM |