TDT4186 Operating Systems (Spring 2021)

Grading

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Discussions

We have enabled a forum on piazza to enable anonymous discussions and feedback. Interesting questions will be discussed in the upcoming Q&A sessions.

Timetable

Lectures will be running online at least until January 18th, 2021, due to NTNU-wide Corona virus precautions.

Until the situation changes, we will run the course in flipped classroom style with lecture videos on youtube and two live sessions - an online exercise session to discuss the theoretical and practical exercises and an online Q&A session in the Thursday lecture slot on Blackboard Collaborate. Flipped classroom means that you are not bound to fixed lecture times but can watch the lecture videos whenever it fits best.

Lecture videos and additional resources

youtube TDT4186 channel

MIT's "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education" with an introduction to the Unix shell, version control, makefiles etc.

Semester plan, slides and videos

Lecture slides and videos will be published twice a week (on Tuesday and Thursday). Assignments for theoretical (TE) and practical (PE) exercises will be handed out weekly on Thursdays, alternating between theoretical and practical exercises. You have two weeks to hand in the solutions (Deadline is Thursday 12:00 noon).

The C crash course serves as an introduction to C for students who have only programmed in Java (or other languages) before. It is also useful as a refresher of your knowledge. This part is identical for the operating systems (TDT4186) and compilers (TDT4205) course.

Practical exercises and code templates

Literature

The lecture will be loosely based on the two following textbooks plus additional material.

Authors	Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
Title	Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Freely available	book website

Authors	William Stallings
Title	Operating Systems - Internals and Design Principles, 9th Global Edition
Publisher	Pearson 2017
ISBN	9781292214290