Systems Programming

CS 241, Spring 2014

Course materials

Getting help

• Staff hours
• Piazza discussion board for all technical and class-related questions. You will receive an invitation email from Piazza to join the sp14.cs241 discussion board
• For private questions only, email cs241help-sp14@cs.illinois.edu. Please use Piazza if at all possible.

Schedule

 

Wk	Date	Event	Assignments	Readings and Notes
1	Mon Jan 20	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (No classes, no office/lab hours)
	Wed Jan 22	Course Introduction	MP0 Released (MP0 files)	How to study: a brief guide
	Thu Jan 23	Discussion Section	ds0
	Fri Jan 24	Introduction to C		appendix_L02
2	Mon Jan 27	C No Evil
	Wed Jan 29	Operating Systems	MP0 Due MP1 Released	appendix_L04
	Thu Jan 30	Discussion Section
	Fri Jan 31	System Calls		appendix_05
3	Mon Feb 3	Heap Memory		What is a kernel?
	Wed Feb 5	Heap Memory II	MP1 Due MP2 Released
	Thu Feb 6	Discussion section
	Fri Feb 7	Heap Memory Wrap-Up and Paging		appendix_08
4	Mon Feb 10	Memory: Paging II
	Wed Feb 12	Memory: Paging III	MP2 Part I Due	appendix_10
	Thu Feb 13	Discussion Section
	Fri Feb 14	Memory Wrap Up
5	Mon Feb 17	Processes		appendix_12
	Wed Feb 19	Processes	MP2 Part 2 Due MP3 Released
	Thu Feb 20	Discussion Section
	Fri Feb 21	Processes
6	Mon Feb 24	POSIX Threads		appendix_14
	Wed Feb 26	POSIX Threads II	MP3 due MP4 Released
	Thu Feb 27	Discussion section
	Fri Feb 28	Synchronization
7	Mon Mar 3	Synchronization		P_V_counter.c MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE
	Wed Mar 5	Preemptive Scheduling		quantum.c
	Thu Mar 6	Discussion section		SAMPLE MID-TERM EXAM
	Fri Mar 7	Synchronization	MP4 Due
	Sat Mar 8	Midterm Review Session I 12PM-2PM 0216SC
8	Mon Mar 10	Lecture: Midterm Review Session II Midterm Exam 7:00pm - 9:00pm Exam Room Assignments Last Name: A - M: SIEBEL 1404, map N - V: EVRT 269, map W - Z: EVRT 165, map Unregistered Students: EVRT 165		SAMPLE MID-TERM EXAM MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE
	Wed Mar 12	Using Semaphores		rw1.c poll
	Thu Mar 13	Discussion section
	Fri Mar 14	Condition variables		questions, pc.c, rw2.c, rw3.c
9	Mon Mar 17	Condition variables		condition.c
	Wed Mar 19	Deadlock	MP5 Released	question
	Thu Mar 20	Discussion section
	Fri Mar 21	Introduction to signals
10	Mon Mar 23	Spring Break
	Wed Mar 25
	Fri Mar 27
11	Mon Mar 31	Deadlock prevention		question
	Wed Apr 2	Deadlock wrapup; IPC: shared mem		shm.c
	Thu Apr 3	Discussion section
	Fri Apr 4	IPC: mmap and pipes		mmap.c, pipe.c
12	Mon Apr 7	IPC: pipes and FIFOs		ls_wc.c
	Wed Apr 9	I/O Multiplexing	MP5 Due MP6 Released	questions, fifostdin.c, epoll.c
	Thu Apr 10	Discussion Section
	Fri Apr 11	I/O Multiplexing, Signals		epoll.c, signal_handler.c
13	Mon Apr 14	Signals		signal-v1.c, signal-v2.c
	Wed Apr 16	Networking
	Thu Apr 17	Discussion section
	Fri Apr 18	Networking 2
14	Mon Apr 21	Sockets		socket_simple_client.c, socket_simple_server.c
	Wed Apr 23	HTTP	MP6 Due MP7 Released	questions
	Thu Apr 24	Discussion section
	Fri Apr 25	DNS
15	Mon Apr 28	Networking wrap-up		server.c
	Wed Apr 30	I/O		question, copy.c
	Thu May 1	Discussion section
	Fri May 2	Filesystems
16	Mon May 5	Security	MP7 Due
	Wed May 7	Wrap-up and beyond CS 241
	Fri May 16	Final Exam, 8-11 am Last name A - Le: in 1404 Siebel Last name Li-Z: in 151 Loomis		Study guide Practice exam