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CSCI380 Operating Systems - Syllabus

Dr. Nazli HardyDr. Nazli Hardy - CSCI380 Operating Systems

Hello Students.

Welcome to CSCI 380.  Please be sure to read through these sections carefully to have a good understanding of classroom expectations and conduct.  Here's to a great semester.

Catalog Description:
CSCI 380:  4 s.h. Operating Systems
This course is designed to introduce student to file systems, resource management, concurrent processes, deadlocks, memory management techniques, processor scheduling, disk scheduling, operating system security and system administration.
 
Objectives of the course:
At the end of this course, a successful student will be expected to be familiar with:    
  1. the basic components of an operating system.
  2. some of the classical operating systems issues
  3. the structures of operating systems on various computer platforms.
  4. classical problems of concurrency and be able to develop programs using concurrency primitives.
  5. tasks of a system administrator on various platforms.
Recommended Textbooks: 
 
Operating System Concepts
8th Edition Binder Ready Version
by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter B. Galvin
ISBN 978-0-470-27993-9
Publisher: Wiley
Copyright: July 2008, ©2009
 
Operating Systems
3rd Edition
by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, David R. Choffnes
ISBN-10: 0131828274
ISBN-13:  9780131828278
Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2004 
 
Prerequisites:
C- or better in CSCI 362 and CSCI 370. 
 
Course Outline: 
Overview
Introduction
Operating System Structures
 
Process Management
Processes
Threads
CPU Scheduling
Process Synchronization
Deadlocks
 
Memory Management
Main Memory
Virtual Memory
 
Storage Management
File Systems

Networking and Security
 
  
Grading:
Midterm:  35%
Final:  35%
Assignments: (programming projects, exercises, quizzes) 30 %
 
 
Barring an acceptable emergency, there are no make-ups
 
Final Letter Grades based on the following weighted scale
93 – 100:  A      90-92.9:  A-   86 – 89.9:  B+  82 – 85.9  B  79 – 81.9: B-
76 – 78.9:  C+   73 – 75.9:  C  70 – 72.9 C-      66 – 68.9:  D+   63 -65.9:  D   
60 – 62.9  D-      <59.9:  Fail
 
 
All work must be submitted on the assigned date or they will not be graded – barring acceptable emergencies. Check website for important dates.
 
The syllabus is subject to some change to accommodate scheduling - so be sure to check in occasionally.  

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