CS 411 Course Materials, Spring 2022

CS 411 Course Materials
Spring 2022

General

Syllabus.
Integrity in My Computer Science Courses.
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces website.
Check the bottom of this page for useful resources and documentation.

Schedule

Feb. 1, Background Read before class: The Linux command line for beginners Git Setup PDF Debugging Programs with GDB Discuss: Introduction and Background Do during/after class: Git Setup	Feb. 3, Background Continued.
Feb. 8, Intro Read before class: Preface Ch. 1 Ch. 2 Discuss and do: Introduction	Feb. 10, Intro Continued.
Feb. 15, Processes Read before class: Ch. 3 Ch. 4 Ch. 5 Ch. 6 Discuss and do: Processes	Feb. 17, Processes Continued.
Feb. 22, Scheduling Read before class: Ch. 7 Ch. 8 Ch. 11 Discuss and do: Scheduling	Feb. 24, Memory Management Read before class: Ch. 13 Ch. 15 Discuss and do: Memory Management Git Branch Commands
Mar. 1, Class Canceled	Mar. 3, Segmentation Read: Ch. 16 Discuss and do: Segmentation gosh shell Code Snippets for gosh shell
Mar. 8, Paging Read: Ch. 18 Discuss and do: Paging Paging Practice gosh shell	Mar. 10, TLBs for Paging Read: Ch. 19 Discuss and do: TLBs Page table address translation practice gosh shell
Mar. 15, Virtual Memory Read: Ch. 21 Ch. 22 Section 23.2 Discuss and do: Virtual Memory I gosh shell	Mar. 17, Work Day
Mar. 29, Virtual Memory II, gosh Shell Discuss and do: Virtual Memory II Practice Problems gosh shell	Mar. 31, Concurrency Introduction Read: Ch. 25 Ch. 26 Discuss and do: Concurrency Introduction gosh shell
Apr. 5, Locks Read: Ch. 28 Discuss and do:	Apr. 7, Locks and Condition Variables Read: Ch. 29 Ch. 30 Discuss and do:
Apr. 12, Semaphores Read: Ch. 31 Discuss and do: Mutexes, Condition Variables, and Semaphores, Oh My!!!	Apr. 14, Concurrency Bugs Read: Ch. 32 Discuss and do: Concurrency Bugs
Apr. 19, Persistence; I/O and Disks Read: Ch. 35 Ch. 36 Ch. 37 Discuss and do: I/O Devices and HDDs, Pseudo-Code	Apr. 21, Class Canceled
Apr. 26, HDD Scheduling Ch. 37 Discuss and do: HDD Scheduling Setup for concurrent web server	Apr. 28, Concurrent Web Server Read README for concurrent web server.
May 3, SSDs Ch. 44 SSDs Concurrent Web Server Notes, 1 Work on concurrent web server	May 5, Files and Directories Ch. 39 Files and Directories Work on concurrent web server
May 10, Concurrent Web Server	May 12, File System Implementation Ch. 40 Ch. 41 We have notes!!! (Thanks for the reminder, Marquis!)

Resources

C Program Debugging

Debugging Programs with gdb
GDB Tutorial from the University of Maryland; includes examples

C Coding Style

Read the first document in its entirety, at least the three sections named below of the second document, and then read the example program.

C Code Style Guidelines; brief, but hits the main points.
C Style and Coding Standards; a corporate standard from AT&T and Sun Microsystems. Section 6, Comments in C Programs, Section 10, White Space, and Section 11, Naming Conventions are definitely worth reading.
multiple.c, a short example of a readable program.
C Coding Standard; PDF version. Another C style guide from Carnegie Mellon.

C Programming Resources

Tutorial for printf(3).
The GNU C Programming Tutorial, the Debugging section gives advice for common compile-item and run-time errors.
The GNU C Reference Manual; PDF
The GNU C Library Reference Manual; PDF
Cprogramming.com, "Your resource for C and C++."
C for Java Programmers (PDF).
More C for Java Programmers (PDF).
C and C++ for Java Programmers (PDF) --- skip the C++ parts.
A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C; PDF version.
C Language Reference Manual
An Introduction to C Programming (Ed Shmookler suggested this site).
The GNU C Library; PDF version.

Git/Git Resources

Git Branch Commands
Git Cheat Sheet from GitHub Education
Git Cheat Sheet from GitLab
Git - The Simple Guide
Git homepage
Documentation section
A Brief Git Tutorial
Git Tutorial on phoenix -- run
man gittutorial
from a terminal window.

Linux Command Line References

Linux Quick Reference, Some Useful Commands.
Directory of Linux Commands, from Linux in a Nutshell.
The One Page Linux Manual.
UNIX/Linux Tutorial.
Linux Tutorial.

Linux Programming Documentation

Pthreads Resources

Last updated May 12, 2022.

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