This page lists lecture outlines/notes plus optional extra reading that may be of interest for each topic.

Week 1 Introduction
• Operating Systems Introduction
• Course Introduction
• What is an Operating System?
• A quick introduction to C Programming
• HW #1 due Tuesday Jan 14 before 6pm Pacific Time

Week 2 The Process Model
• Processes
• Scheduling
• HW #2 due Thursday Jan 23 before 6pm Pacific time

Week 3 Architecture
• The Memory Hierarchy
• Virtual Memory 101
• The Underlying Architecture Part 2
• HW #3 due Tuesday Jan 28 before 6pm Pacific Time

Week 4 Memory
• Virtual Memory 101
• Page Tables and TLBs
• HW #4 due Tuesday Feb 4 before 6pm Pacific Time

Week 5 Memory and Midterm
• Paging Approaches
• Midterm Exam
  • Thursday Feb 6 6:40 pm Regular Classroom
  • This is a Closed Book Exam
  • You may bring ONE 8.5 x 11 inch page with one side of notes
  • NO electronic devices during the exam
  • Exam covers ALL lectures and textbook readings through Feb 4

Week 6 Concurrency and Synchronization
• Too Much Milk (handout)
• Concurrency and Threads

Week 7 Concurrency and Synchronization
• Lego's, Toddlers, and Dining Philosophers (handout)

Week 8 Storage
• NOTE: Tuesday Feb 25 Class Cancelled
• I/O and Storage
• HW #7 due Thursday Mar 5 before 6pm Pacific Time

Week 9 File Systems and Performance
• Files Part 1 and Part 2
• File System Implementation
• File Descriptor worksheet

Week 10
• Chapter 6: Access Control from Ross Anderson, "Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems," 3rd Edition DRAFT 2019, to appear, Wiley.
• OS Protection and Security
• [this material NOT on final exam] Runtime Rootkit detection with EPA-RIMM

FINALS WEEK
• Final Exam Tuesday March 17 7:30 - 9:20 pm
  • AT HOME FINAL
  • This is a Closed Book Exam
  • You may bring ONE 8.5 x 11 inch page with one side of notes
  • NO electronic devices during the exam EXCEPT to receive/send the exam
  • Exam covers ALL lectures, homeworks, practice exercises and textbook readings from week 6 through week 10, PLUS the process model