CS 416 Documents

O you possessed of sturdy intellects, observe the teaching that is hidden here beneath the veil of verses so obscure.
         — Dante Alighieri, Inferno IX:61-63, trans. A. Mandelbaum
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Lecture notes

Week Title
Week 1. A history of computing and operating systems: lecture notes
  Intro lecture slides (6 per page)
  How operating systems boot: lecture notes
  Booting: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 2. Concepts of Operating Systems: lecture notes
  Concepts lecture slides (6 per page)
  Processes: lecture notes
  Processes: lecture slides (6 per page)
  Threads: lecture notes
  Threads: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 3. Synchronization: lecture notes
  Synchronization lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 4. Scheduling: lecture notes
  Scheduling: lecture slides (6 per page)
  Real-time scheduling: lecture notes
  Real-time scheduling: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 5 Exam 1: study guide
Week 5. Memory management: lecture notes
  Memory management lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 6. Paging: lecture notes
  Paging: lecture slides (6 per page)
  Kernel memory: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 7. Device drivers: lecture notes
  Devices: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 9. File systems: lecture notes
  File systems: lecture slides (6 per page)
  File system design case studies: lecture notes
  File system design: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 10 Exam 2: study guide
Week 10 File systems for flash memory: lecture notes
Week 10 Special file systems and devices: lecture notes
  Special file systems and devices: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 11 Client-server networking: lecture notes
  Client-server networking: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 11 Sockets: lecture notes
  Sockets: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 12 Remote Procedure Calls: lecture notes
  Remote Procedure Calls: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 12 Network file systems: lecture notes
  Network file systems: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 12 Protection: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 12 Protection: lecture notes
Week 12r Cryptography: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 13 Authentication: lecture slides (6 per page)
  Security: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 14 Exam 3: study guide (including virtualization)
Week 14 Virtualization: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 15 2015 Exam 3 review (6 per page)
Week 15 Windowing: lecture slides (6 per page)
Week 15 Power management: lecture slides (6 per page)

Recitation notes

Title
System calls (6 per page)
Pre-exam 1 review (6 per page)
Pre-exam 2 review (6 per page)
Pre-exam 3 review (6 per page)

Study guides

Title
Exam 1 study guide
Exam 2 study guide
Exam 3 study guide

Supplemental notes

Title
Linux kernel coding style, Linux Kernel Documentation
Notes on Programming in C, Rob Pike:
This discusses style and is somewhat applicable to java programmers as well — food for thought more than concrete rules.
C Programming Style, Paul Krzyzanowski