Course Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule for the course (subject to change).

Topic	Materials
Week 1: August 17 – 23
Introduction, OS Basics Lecture 1 Recording	Reading: xv6 Ch. 1 xv6 book xv6 source code Working Remotely Example vim & tmux configs
Week 2: August 24 – 30
Exploring the OS, Remembering How to C Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Recording Booting Up Lecture 4 Recording	Quick C Tutorial TL;DR Pages git Commands boot.asm mini-os
Week 3: August 31 – September 6
Monday: Labor Day Misc announcements, libc Lecture 5 Recording	Debugging with GDB Beej’s Debugging Guide logger.h Creating a Shell Alias
Week 4: September 7 – 13
Processes and Daemons Lecture 6 Recording (1st half) System Calls Lecture 7 Recording (2nd half)	Reading: OSTEP Ch 4, Ch 5, Ch 6 fork.c readdir.c RISC-V Privilege Levels
Week 5: September 14 – 20
Program Loader, Scripting init.c, exec.c, sh.c Recording Inter-Process Communication Lecture 8 Recording	Reading: IPC, Signals Signals SIGKILL signal.c unkillable.c
Week 6: September 21 – 27
Strace Discussion Recording Pipes Lecture 9 Recording	Reading: Review xv6 Ch. 1.3, Pipes Code Review Guidelines Pipes AT&T Archives: UNIX (Video) Julia Evans: Pipes io-redir.c pipe.c
Week 7: September 28 – October 4
Finishing Pipes Recording
Week 8: October 5 – 11
Building a Shell Recording CPU Scheduling: Introduction Lecture 10 Recording	Reading: OSTEP Ch 7 next_token.c scheduler.sh
Week 9: October 12 – 18
Monday: Fall Break Basic Scheduling Algorithms Recording
Week 10: October 19 – 25
Finishing Basic Scheduling Recording Pipe Lab Recording
Week 11: October 26 – November 1
Multi-Level Feedback Queues Lecture 11 Recording Memory Allocation Lecture 12 Recording	Reading: OSTEP Ch 12, 13, 15 mem.c mmap_reader.c mmap_writer.c Dan Luu’s Malloc Tutorial
Week 12: November 2 – 8
Segmentation Lecture 13 Recording Paging Lecture 14 Recording
Week 13: November 9 – 15
Memory Allocation Recording Quiz Study Guide Recording Memory Allocator Recording
Week 14: November 16 – 22
Revisiting Mapped Memory Recording
Week 15: November 23 – 29
File Systems Lecture 15 Recording Files and Disks Lecture 16 Recording	Reading: OSTEP 37, 39, 40 Linux Storage Diagram
Week 16: November 30 – December 6
Disk Scheduling & SSDs Lecture 17 Recording
Week 17: December 7 – 13
Final Quiz: Monday, December 8 ⋅ 10:00am – 10:30am