| Week | Date | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | |||
| 1 | 8/25(M) | Course Syllabus [PDF] L1: Preparation for Learning OS [PDF]( Linux, VS Code, GitHub, JSON, and AI) | Mandatory first-day attendance.No-shows will be dropped. |
| 8/27(W) | L2: Hello, OS World! [PDF][Code](Viewing Operating Systems from Multiple Angles) | HW 1 Posted on [GHC] | |
| 8/29(F) | Recitation | Proj 1 Released | |
| Virtualization: Creating a Universe for "Hello World" | |||
| 2 | 9/1(M) | No class due to Labor Day. | |
| 9/3(W) | L3: Interacting with the OS [PDF][Code](OS Strucutre, System Call, Object, File Descriptor, and Pipe) | HW 1 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 2 Posted on [GHC] | |
| 3 | 9/8(M) | L4: Programs and Processes [PDF][Code](Definition, Creation, and Management) | |
| 9/10(W) | L5: Terminal and UNIX Shell [PDF][Code](Terminal, Sessions and Process Groups, Shell Programming) | HW 2 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 3 Posted on [GHC] | |
| 4 | 9/15(M) | L6: Process' Address Space [PDF][Code][Demo](Initial State, Management, and Hacking) | |
| 9/17(W) | L7: Address Translation [PDF](Protection, Segmentation, and Paging) | HW 3 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 4 Posted on Canvas | |
| 5 | 9/22(M) | L8: Caching [PDF][Code] (Cache Hit/Miss, TLB, Meltdown and Spectre Attack) |
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| 9/24(W) | L9: Stack [PDF](Stack Layout and Return Address) | HW 4 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 5 Posted on Canvas | |
| 6 | 9/29(M) | L10: More on Stack [PDF][Code](Shell Code and Buffer Overflow) | Proj 1 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) |
| 10/1(W) | L11: ELF [PDF][Code](From ELF to EXE and Hacking) | HW 5 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 6 Posted on Canvas/[GHC] | |
| 10/3(F) | Recitation | Proj 2 Released | |
| 7 | 10/6(M) | L12: libc [PDF][Code](Dynamic Linking, GOT, PLT, ret2libc, ROP, GOT Leak) | |
| 10/8(W) | Midterm Exam Review [PDF] | HW 6 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) | |
| Concurrency: Why Doesn't 1+1 Equal 2? | |||
| 8 | 10/13(M) | L13: CPU Scheduling [PDF](Threads, Dispatching, and Scheduling Policies) | |
| 10/15(W) | Midterm Exam (1:20 p.m. – 2:35 p.m) | HW 7 Posted on Canvas | |
| 9 | 10/20(M) | L14: Shared-Memory Concurrency [PDF][Code] (Multithreading Model, Libraies, and Challenges) |
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| 10/22(W) | L15: Mutual Exclusion [PDF][Code](Exclusion, Peterson’s Algorithm) | HW 7 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 8 Posted on Canvas/[GHC] | |
| 10 | 10/27(M) | L16: More on Mutual Exclusion [PDF][Code](Spin Locks, Mutexes, and Futexes) | |
| 10/29(W) | L17: Synchronization [PDF][Code] (Producer-Consumer, Condition Variables) |
HW 8 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 9 Posted on Canvas | |
| 11 | 11/3(M) | L18: More on Synchronization [PDF][Code] (Semaphores, Dining Philosophers) |
Proj 2 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) |
| 11/5(W) | L19: Concurrency Bugs and Debugging [PDF][Code] (Deadlocks, Data Races, Atomicity/Ordering Violations) |
HW 9 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 10 Posted on Canvas | |
| 11/7(F) | Recitation | Proj 3 Released | |
| 12 | 11/10(M) | L20: Real World Concurrent Programming [PDF][Code](HPC, Data Center, Web, AI) | |
| Persistence: Teaching Software to Speak to Hardware | |||
| 12 | 11/12(W) | L21: Storage Device and File Systems [PDF][Code](Storage Methods, Abstraction, Sharing, Directory, FAT, ext2) | HW 10 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 11 Posted on Canvas |
| 13 | 11/17(M) | L22: Data Reliability and Modern Storage Systems [PDF] (RAID, Crash, FSCK, Journaling, Distributed Storage) |
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| 11/19(W) | L23: I/O Device [PDF](Interface, Bus, Interrupt, DMA, Heterogeneous Computing) | HW 11 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET)HW 12 Posted on Canvas | |
| 14 | 11/24(M) | L24: Device Driver [PDF][Code](Abstraction, Design, CUDA) | |
| 11/26(W) | No class Due to Thanksgiving. | ||
| 15 | 12/1(M) | L25: What Makes Android a Good OS? [PDF][Code](Code from Classroom to Global Stage)Final Exam Review [PDF] | HW 12 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) |
| 12/3(W) | No Class (End-of-Semester Preparation). | ||
| 12/5(F) | Recitation | Proj 3 DDL at 23:59 PM (ET) | |
| 16 | 12/9(M) | No Class Due to Final Examination Week. | |
| 12/10(W) |
Final Exam (1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m) NO MAKE-UPs |
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