1. ICS 145B Project in Operating Systems Lubomir Bic
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2. Course Overview Instructor: TAs: Lubomir Bic, bic@ics.uci.edu
Office hours: after class, CS 408c
TAs:
Ping Li,
Office Hours: Th 3:30-4:30 IERF 106
Liang Cheng,
Office Hours: TBA
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3. Course Overview Prerequisites: Textbook: ICS 143
basic knowledge of C and UNIX
Textbook:
L. Bic, A. Shaw, Operating Systems Principles, Prentice-Hall, 2003 (ISBN: )
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4. Course Overview Course Objective: Course Structure:
apply the principles of OSs from ICS 143 in practice
design/implement several components of a simple OS
get exposed to principles of CS research
Course Structure:
4 projects to complete
presented in lectures (2-4 lectures/project)
TAs provide help in discussion sections/office hours
on the due date:
turn in your design documentation (all projects)
include results (some projects)
demonstrate functionality using given test data (some projects)
work individually or in groups of up to three students
no changes or drops unless all members agree
same projects but workload will increase with group size
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5. Course Overview Schedule and Grading:
grade is based entirely on projects; no exams 1
Process and Resource Management
30%
design document (15%)
demo (15%) 2
Page Replacement Algorithms
results (15%) 3
Disk Driver
10%
design document (10%)
tested as part of #4 4
File System
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6. Course Overview Design Documentation Level 1:
High-level design description
Data structures
Function specification
System architecture
calling hierarchy
which functions access which data structures
Level 2:
complete code with extensive comments
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7. Course Overview Results and analysis (if applicable)
rationale for experiments/parameters chosen
data (tables, graphs)
interpretation of obtained results (what are we seeing and why)
Demos (if applicable)
submit source code via Masterhit
TAs will test it using a set of test cases
Late work:
penalty of 10% per day will be imposed
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8. Course Overview Target of Opportunity:
develop alternative projects or programming assignments
use in future offerings of 145B
include in future printings of text book
thinking about graduate school?
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