CS 385 Spring 2013

"Current" Events

New material is added here first, and later moved elsewhere or removed entirely as it becomes old or obsolete. Some information is considered sufficiently important to never expire.

• Final Exam Tuesday 7 May, 3:30 to 5:30, Comprehensive. Lecture Center F6.
• Homework 4 - Discrete Event Simulation of a CPU Scheduler - Due Thursday May 2nd at 3:00 via Blackboard
  • Standard Template Library ( STL ) Documentation, including tutorials
  • STL Priority Queue documentation on cplusplus.com
  • Example implementing a comparator function from cplusplus.com
  • Class notes from 8 April 2013 ( also under Scribbles below. )
• Homework 3 - Simulation of a Memory Paging System - Due Monday April 8th at 3:30 via Blackboard.
  • Sample Data Files
• Homework 2 - Interprocess Communications - Due Thursday 14 March at 3:00 via Blackboard.
  • Class Notes - 19 Feb 2013 - See also scribbles below
• Midterm Exam I Wednesday March 6, 6:00 to 8:00 P.M., Lecture Center B 101
  • Coverage includes all work through the 7th week of classes, i.e. chapters 1-7 and HW 1 & 2.
• Seminar on non-deadlock concurrency bugs, Thursday 7 March at 11:00
• Homework 1 - Statsh - Due Tuesday 19 February at 3:00 p.m. via Blackboard
  • Please submit your files as a zip file named with your ACCC name followed by CS385HW1, e.g. jbellCS385HW1.zip
  • timekiller.cpp - A deliberately inefficient program to chew up cpu cycles and consume measurable time.
• ROOM CHANGE: CS 385 has now been moved to LC F6
• Course Policies - Includes instructor information and original planned schedule.
• John Bell's Home page, including office information and links to current schedule.
  • John Bell's Spring 2013 Schedule
• TA 's Web Page
• Programming Resources - Including Linux man pages, VMware, Ubuntu, and more
• Scribbles - Notes made in class ( now in REVERSE chronological order. )
  • 16 April 2013 and following - Mostly HW4 notes
  • 11 April 2013 - More HW4 notes
  • 8 April 2013 - HW4 notes
  • 2 April 2013 - HW3 notes
  • 1 April 2013 - reading binary using fread, pass by pointer / address
  • 12 March 2013 - header file notes for HW2
  • HW2 Office Hours 7 March 2013
  • Catch up to 6 March 2013
  • 12 Feb 13 - background processes
  • office homework discussion, regarding pipes
  • 5 Feb 13 - struct rusage and parsing by | ( Modified )
  • 4 Feb 13 - pipes and I/O redirection with dup2
  • 29 Jan 13 ( modified on a later date )
  • 24 Jan 13
    • page 1
    • page 2
    • page 3
    • page 4
  • 18 Jan 13 - Intro to C++ for Java programmers
    • page 1 in color
    • page 2 in color
• 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

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