CS 385 Fall 2011

"Current" Events

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• Final Exam - Friday 9 December, 1:00 - 3:00 P.M., Lecture Center C1
• Homework 5 - Process Synchronization and Communications - Due Friday 2 December at 8:00 P.M. via Blackboard
• Homework 4 - Simulation of a Memory Paging System - Due Tuesday November 15th at 3:00 P.M.
• Homework 3 - Type in and debug your answer to part III of the first midterm exam.
  • Due Friday 28 October. Electronic copy at 2:30. Hard copy in class.
  • For this assignment please include a printout of your solution, along with a copy of your original exam answer ( to part III only. )
• Homework 1 - Statsh - Due Tuesday 27 September at 3:00 P.M.
• Homework 2 - CPU Scheduler ( Revised )- Due Thursday 20 October at 3:00 P.M.
  • Ties: Write your comparator so that if there is a tie in the primary sort key ( e.g. if two processes have the same arrival time ), that the one with the smaller PID exits the heap first.
  • Revision: For each of the CPU and I/O bursts read in from the data file, add 1.0 to the unsigned char that is read before dividing by 25.6. This is to prevent bursts of zero duration, which would be unrealistic.
  • Correction: For each of the "comparator functions" required for this assignment,you actually need to create a CLASS containing a public
  • method
    "bool operator( ) ( Type, Type );" See the following example:
    • Example using priority_queue with user-provided comparator class
  • Sample Data files, in order of increasing size:
    • light_drops.bmp - 49 kB
    • diver_resize.bmp - 82 kB
    • LUG_Newbies.bmp - 1 MB
    • Grande Jatte.bmp - 1.2 MB
    • Esher.bmp - 1.7 MB
    • Chevalier_473.bmp - 2 MB
    • diver.bmp - 9 MB
    • VRUPL_Logo.bmp - 14.5 MB
    • JohnBell.bmp - 18 MB
    • calibration.bmp - 21 MB
• Programming Resources - Including Linux man pages, VMware, Ubuntu, and more
• Scribbles - Notes made in class
  • C++ for Java Programmers
  • HW1
    • HW1 first notes
    • Friday 16 Sept 2011
  • HW2
    • 4 Oct 2011
• John Bell's Home page, including office information and links to current schedule.
  • John Bell's Fall 2011 Schedule
• TA 's Web Page
• Course Policies - Includes instructor information and original planned schedule.
• Microsoft Software Program:
  • Dale Reed's Microsoft Software Program page
  • MSDNAA Direct Web Site:
    1. Go to https://msdn01.e-academy.com/uic_cs
    2. Your login name is your CS e-mail address ( including the "@cs.uic.edu" ) This may be a temp account if you are enrolled in CS classes but are not a CS major.
    3. Your password should have been mailed to you at the beginning of the semester. ( To your CS account. ) If you need them to e-mail it again, there is a button on the page to do that.
• ACM Web Site
  • Tutoring
• Linux Users Group ( LUG ) Web Site

Course Notes Pages

( Intro to C Programming Course Notes Pages )

Homework Documents

• Homework 1 - Statsh - Due Tuesday 27 September at 3:00 P.M.

Old Pages

• CPlusPlus.com has good online documentation and tutorials for C++, including the STL.
• The GNU readline library may ( or may not ) be useful for this assignment.
• Standard Template Library ( STL ) Documentation, including tutorials