The schedule is tentative and might change during the semester.

Week Topic Class Notes Reading Assignment
1 C Programming Language - Essential C 1
2 C Programming Language html
pdf
Pointers and Memory,
Linked List Basics,
Binary Trees
2
3 PC H/W, CPUs and Assembly Review pdf I/O Devices,
Journey to the Stack, Part I,
How Computers Boot Up,
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4 - 5 OS Basics, Processes and Threads pdf
pptx
Introduction,
The Abstraction: The Process,
Interlude: Process API,
Mechanism: Limited Direct Execution,
Concurrency: An Introduction,
Interlude: Thread API,
Project 1: Threads
6 Synchronization and Deadlock pdf
pptx
Locks,
Lock-based Concurrent Data Structures,
Condition Variables,
Semaphores,
Common Concurrency Problems,
Monitors,
TBD
7 Scheduling pdf
pptx
Scheduling: Introduction,
Scheduling: Multi-level Feedback Queue ,
Scheduling: Proportional Share,
Multiprocessor Scheduling,
TBD
8 Address Translation and Virtual Memory pdf
pptx
pptx (with audio)
The Abstraction: Address Spaces,
Mechanism: Address Translation,
Segmentation,
Paging: Introduction,
Paging: Faster Translation (TLBs),
Paging: Smaller Tables,
Beyond Physical Memory: Mechanisms,
Beyond Physical Memory: Policies
TBD
9 Memory Management and Garbage Collection pdf
pptx
Free Space Management TBD
10 Storage Disks pdf
pptx
Hard Disk Drives,
Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAIDs)
TBD
11 Files and Directories pdf
pptx
Interlude: File and Directories,
File System Implementation,
Locality and The Fast File System,
Crash Consistency: FSCK and Journaling,
Log-structured File Systems
TBD
12 File System - TBD TBD

Material reused/adopted from Christo Wilson.