Schedule

The schedule will change as the course progresses, in part based on student interests. If you are particularly interested in some topic not covered here, send an email to the instructor.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Aug 25	Aug 26	Aug 27 LEC 1: Course Introduction TUT 1-1: Lab Setup, Tools and Debugging Read: textbook-1	Aug 28	Aug 29
Sep 1 Labor Day	Sep 2	Sep 3 TUT 0-1: Systems Programming for the Labs Read: GDB tutorial-1, GDB tutorial-2, GDB cheat-sheet	Sep 4	Sep 5
Sep 8 LEC 2: Booting TUT 0-2: x86 Instruction Set Read: at&t-asm	Sep 9	Sep 10 LEC 3: Memory and Address Space TUT 0-2: x86 Instruction Set TUT 1-2: Booting Process and Calling Convention Read: textbook-1, textbook-2, textbook-3	Sep 11	Sep 12
Sep 15 LEC 4: Virtual Memory I TUT 1-2: Booting Process and Calling Convention Read: x86 Address Translation, Page Table, textbook-1, textbook-2, textbook-3	Sep 16	Sep 17 LEC 4: Virtual Memory I LEC 5: Virtual Memory II TUT 2-1: Physical Memory Management Read: textbook-1, textbook-2, textbook-3	Sep 18	Sep 19
Sep 22 LEC 6: JOS Memory Management TUT 2-1: Physical Memory Management TUT 2-2: Virtual Memory Management	Sep 23	Sep 24 LEC 7: User/Kernel Context Switch TUT 2-2: Virtual Memory Management Read: textbook-1, textbook-2, textbook-3	Sep 25	Sep 26
Sep 29 Quiz 1 (LEC 2-6 and TUT 1-1 to 2-2)	Sep 30	Oct 1 LEC 8: Handling Interrupt and Exceptions	Oct 2	Oct 3
Oct 6 Quiz 1 Review TUT 3-1: User Environment and Trap Dispatching	Oct 7	Oct 8 LEC 9: System Calls and Page Faults Read: textbook-1, textbook-2, textbook-3	Oct 9	Oct 10
Oct 13 Class Cancelled	Oct 14	Oct 15 Class Cancelled	Oct 16	Oct 17
Oct 20 LEC 9: System Calls and Page Faults TUT 3-2: Handling Interrupt and Exceptions	Oct 21	Oct 22 LEC 10: Multi-threading and Data Races Read: textbook-1, textbook-2	Oct 23	Oct 24
Oct 27 Quiz 2 (LEC 7-10 and TUT 3-1 to 3-2)	Oct 28	Oct 29 LEC 11: Locks and Synchronization	Oct 30	Oct 31
Nov 3 Quiz 2 Review LEC 12: Concurrency Bugs and Deadlock Read: textbook-1	Nov 4	Nov 5 LEC 12: Concurrency Bugs and Deadlock	Nov 6	Nov 7
Nov 10 LEC 13: Scheduling TUT 4-1: Multiprocessor Support and Cooperative Multitasking Read: textbook-1	Nov 11	Nov 12 LEC 14: Disks and Device I/O TUT 4-1: Multiprocessor Support and Cooperative Multitasking TUT 4-2: Copy-on-Write Fork, Preemptive Multitasking, and Inter-Process Communication Read: textbook-1, textbook-2	Nov 13	Nov 14
Nov 17 LEC 15: File Systems Read: textbook-1, textbook-2	Nov 18	Nov 19 TUT 4-2: Copy-on-Write Fork, Preemptive Multitasking, and Inter-Process Communication	Nov 20	Nov 21
Nov 24 Fall Break	Nov 25 Fall Break	Nov 26 Fall Break	Nov 27 Thanksgiving Holidays	Nov 28 Thanksgiving Holidays
Dec 1 Quiz 3 (LEC 11-15 and TUT 4-1 to 4-2)	Dec 2	Dec 3 LEC 16: Crash Consistency LEC 17: Virtual Machines Read: textbook-1, textbook-2, textbook-1	Dec 4	Dec 5
Dec 8 Quiz 3 Review LEC 18: Final Course Review	Dec 9 Last Day of Classes	Dec 10 Reading Day	Dec 11 Final Exam Period (No Exam)	Dec 12 Final Exam Period (No Exam)