ICS 143A ‒ Summer Session II, 2013  

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Instructor: Lubomir Bic, bic@ics.uci.edu

Teaching Assistant: TBD

• Office hours: TBD

Textbook:

• L. Bic, A. Shaw, Operating Systems Principles, Prentice-Hall, 2003 (ISBN: 0130266116)

Course Structure:

• This is an online course. All lectures will be recorded and available on the course page.
• There will be a set of homework problems for each week. They need to be turned in by the due date.
• There will be a quiz every week, which must be taken during a specific time window.
• There will be a final exam on September 10, 7:00-8:50 pm. This will be given on the UCI campus (not on line).

Grading:

• Grade composition:
• Homework: 10%
• Quizzes 40%
• Final 50%
• Exams:
• Final exam is comprehensive and is an "open book/open notes" exam
• All quiz/exam problems will be similar to the homework problems.
• Grading will be done on a curve as follows: Approximately:
• 25% of students will receive A+/-
• 25% of students will receive B+/-
• 40% of students will receive C+/-

Topics Covered

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Processes and their Interactions
• Chapter 3: Higher-Level Synchronization Schemes
• Chapter 4: The OS Kernel
• Chapter 5: Scheduling
• Chapter 6: Deadlocks
• Chapter 7: Physical Memory
• Chapter 8: Virtual Memory
• Chapter 9: Linking and Sharing
• Chapter 10: File Systems
• Chapter 11: I/O
• Chapter 12: The Protection and Security Interface
• Chapter 13: Internal Protection Mechanisms

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