CSC 4103

Operating System Concepts

 

Instructor:

Prof. Tevfik Kosar

Office: 292 Coates Hall (and 333 Johnston Hall)

Phone: 578-9483

Email: kosar@lsu.edu

Office hours: Wed & Thu, 1:00pm-2:00pm (at 292 Coates)

 

Teaching Assistant:

Anindya Poddar

Email : anindya@csc.lsu.edu

 

Course Description:

CSC 4103 is an introductory course to the design and implementation of operating systems. It focuses on different design techniques, process management, processor scheduling, deadlocks, memory management, secondary memory management, file management, and I/O systems. CSC 3102 is a prerequisite of this course. CSC 4103 will be offered during Spring 2007 on Tue & Thu between 9:10am-10:30am at 218 Coates Hall.

 

Textbooks:

• Operating Systems Concepts (7^th edition), by A. Silbershatz, P.B. Galvin, and G. Gayne. Wiley Publishers, 2004.
• OSP: An Environment for Operating System Projects, by M. Kifer, and S.A. Smolka, Addison-Wesley Publishers.

 

Grading:

The end-of-semester grades will be composed of:

• Pop Quizzes: 10%
• Homework: 15%
• Projects: 20%     
• Midterm: 25%
• Final: 30%

 

There will be no formal attendance taken in the class. But, you are expected to attend the classes and actively contribute via asking and/or answering questions. There may be pop quizzes at the beginning of some classes. The questions in the quizzes will come mostly from the material discussed in the previous lecture(s) or homework assignment(s).

 

Class Mailing List:

There will be a mailing list (CS4103@cct.lsu.edu) for the important course announcements including projects, homework assignments, and exams. Please make sure that you provide an active email address to the instructor, and check your email frequently.

 

Course Schedule:

This schedule is tentative and subject to change. Please check the course web site: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/csc4103 regularly for the updates on the schedule; announcements on the projects, homework assignments and exams; and other news about the course.