Anything on the schedule more than 24 hours in advance is subject to change.
From source code to running program
Week |
Day |
Description |
Readings |
Notes |
1 |
8/28 |
intro |
none |
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1 |
8/30 |
linking intro |
7.1-7.6 |
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2 |
9/4 |
relocation |
7.7-7.9 |
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2 |
9/6 |
position independent code |
7.10-7.12 |
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Exceptional control flow and the user-kernel boundary
Week |
Day |
Description |
Readings |
Notes |
3 |
9/11 |
Exceptions |
8.1 |
|
3 |
9/13 |
Processes |
8.2 |
|
4 |
9/18 |
System Calls |
8.3-8.4 |
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4 |
9/20 |
Finish System Calls |
|
no reading |
5 |
9/25 |
Signals |
8.5 strace zine |
|
5 |
9/27 |
Files |
10.1-10.8 |
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6 |
10/2 |
Files |
10.1-10.8 |
no quiz |
Memory Management and Virtual Memory
Week |
Day |
Description |
Readings |
Notes |
6 |
10/4 |
Virtual Addressing |
9.1-9.2 |
|
7 |
10/9 |
Virtual Memory Paging & Caching |
9.3-9.4 |
|
7 |
10/11 |
Memory mgmt and address translation |
9.5-9.6 |
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8 |
10/16 |
Memory Mapping |
9.7-9.8 |
|
8 |
10/18 |
Dynamic Memory Allocation |
9.9 |
|
9 |
10/23 |
Garbage collection |
9.10 |
Lecture delivered online |
9 |
10/25 |
Midterm exam |
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No daytime class; midterm is at 6pm in LC A |
Networking
Week |
Day |
Description |
Readings |
Notes |
10 |
10/30 |
Networking concepts |
11.1-11.2 |
|
10 |
11/1 |
IP & DNS |
11.3-11.3.2 |
|
11 |
11/6 |
Connections and Sockets |
11.3.3-11.4 |
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11 |
11/8 |
HTTP |
11.5 |
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Coordinating with other processes
Week |
Day |
Description |
Readings |
Notes |
12 |
11/13 |
Multiprocessing |
12.1-12.2 |
|
12 |
11/15 |
Multithreading |
12.3 |
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13 |
11/20 |
Shared Vars and Semaphroes |
12.4-12.5 |
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13 |
11/22 |
No class, Thanksgiving |
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14 |
11/27 |
Threads for Parallelism |
12.6 |
|
14 |
11/29 |
Other adventures in threading |
12.7 |
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15 |
12/4 |
Performance measurement |
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15 |
12/6 |
Final exam review |
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