CMSC421
Principles of Operating Systems		  

Lecture Materials

Lecture Schedule

This tentative schedule is subject to change at any time
Week Week of.. Monday Wednesday Topic Assignment
1 Jan 30 Admin/Intro Ch 1 Overview
2 Feb 6 Ch 2 Ch 3 Overview
Proceses, IPCs 		Proj 1 Assigned
3 Feb 13 Ch 3 Ch 4 Processes, IPCs
Threads
4 Feb 20 Ch 6 Ch 6 Semaphores, Monitors
5 Feb 27 Ch 7 Ch 7 Deadlocks Proj 1 Due Mar 2
6 Mar 6
Midterm 1
Ch 5 Ch 1 - 4 & 6
CPU scheduling
7 Mar 13 Ch 5 Ch 5 CPU Scheduling

Mar 20
Spring
Break


8 Mar 27 Ch 8 Ch 8 Memory Management
9 Apr 3 Ch 9 Ch 9 Virtual Memory Project 2 assigned
10 Apr 10 Ch 10 Ch 10 File Systems
11 Apr 17
Midterm 2
Ch 11 Ch 5, 7 - 9
File Systems
12 Apr 24 Ch 11 Ch 12 More File Systems Proj 2 due Apr 25
Proj 3 Assigned
13 May 1 Ch 12 Ch 14 File Systems
Protection
14 May 8 Ch 14 Ch 15 Protection
Security
15 May 15 Review for Final Exam No Class
Proj3 due May 16

Friday May 19th
1:00pm
Final
Exam
See list of topics

Lecture Notes

The slides used for class are a subset of the slides that accompany the textbook, made available by the authors of the textbook.
We will be covering the first 15 chapaters of the text.