Course Title Ceng 334 Operating Systems Lecturer Prof

Course • Title : • Ceng 334 Operating Systems • Lecturer : • Prof. F. Payidar Genç • Room A-409 • Http: //www. metu. edu. tr/~genc Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 1

Lecture Hours • Section 1: – Monday 9: 40 – 10: 40 BMB 4 – Wednesday 12: 40 BMB 4 • Section 2: – Monday – Wednesday Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 12: 40 BMB 4 9: 40 – 10: 40 BMB 4 2

Exam Dates • Midterm 1. . 5’th April 2003 (Monday) • Midterm 2. . 5’th May 2003 (Wednesday) • Final . . To be announced • Exams are common for both sections Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 3

Exams • All my exams are open book, notebook etc. except bringing a friend who has taken the course before. • An English to Turkish dictionary is strongly recommended. • You are strongly advised to solve most of the problems at the end of the chapters covered in class. Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 4

Text Book(s) · Modern Operating Systems, 2/e, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall 2001 · Book Material: http: //www. prenhall. com/divisions/esm/app/author_tanenbaum/custom/mos 2 e/ · Book Description: http: //vig. prenhall. com/catalog/academic/product/1, 4096, 0130313580, 00. html · Operating System Projects Using Windows NT, Gary Nutt, Addison-Wesley 1999 · Book Description: http: //www. aw. com/catalog/academic/product/1, 4096, 0201477084, 00. html · Author’s web site: http: //www. cs. colorado. edu/~nutt/Home. html Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 5

Course Material & etc. • All of the material (slides, past exams etc. ) are all in my web site. • I’ll be using a mixture of my own slides and the slides provided by Tanenbaum in the book web site (refer to the links on the previous slide) • You do not have to take detailed notes during the lectures but a copy of the lecture slides may be handy to take short notes. • A Ceng 334 discussion list will be provided so that we (me & our asst. ) can make announcements. You may also use the list for inter-class communication. Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 6

Course Outline • • • Introduction (Chapter 1) - 1 week Processes and Threads (Chapter 2) – 3 weeks Deadlocks (Chapter 3) – 1 week Memory Management (Chapter 4) File Systems (Chapter 6) Input/output (Chapter 5) Multimedia Operating Systems (Chapter 7) Case Study 1: UNIX (Chapter 10) Case Study 2: Windows 2000 (Chapter 11) Note: Chapter numbers are from the text book Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 7

Grading • Project and homeworks (15%) • Two midterm exams (25% each) • Final exam (35%) Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 8

Attendance • Attendance to lectures are expected from all students although I won’t hold an attendance sheet • If the number of students in any class hour is less than the 10% of the class size, I won’t lecture but the class will be responsible from the course material Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 9

Assistant • • • Burçak Otlu E-mail: burcak@ceng. metu. edu. tr Telephone: (+90) 312 2105538 Fax: (+90) 312 2101259 Office: A 302 Personal Web Page: http: //www. ceng. metu. edu. tr/~burcak Ceng 334 - Operating Systems 10