COS 727 Operating Systems Bill Tucker 1 st term, 2009
Introduction • • • Syllabus (30 minutes) Books (10 minutes) 1 st assignment (10 minutes) Academic discourse (20 minutes) Partners (10 minutes) Q&A (10 minutes)
Cell phone policy • Turn it off or put it on silent • Cell phone goes off, you pay R 10 each time. • We collect the money at the end of class and buy sweets. • You’ll be surprised how many sweets we can buy!
Syllabus • • • No final exam Pop quizzes Programming assignments Discourse assignments Class participation
MINIX • Mini UNIX, inspiration for Linux • Full source code in the book (also online) • Run it under a virtual machine on your Honours PC. • VMWare is best. • Use version 3. 11 from book or online. • You know this already from last year! • Long leads the course assistants.
Books • Tanenbaum & Woodhull 3 rd edition • Lease this book for R 500 (see Rene) • Why get a book? § Statistics show higher marks § Pop quizzes are open book § You read it, you learn more • K&R C Programming Language also helpful
Assignment #1 • Replace the MINIX scheduling algorithm. • Turn in a report of how you did it beginning of class next Monday. Print out all relevant changes and provide an overview of what you did.
Discourse assignments • Reading an academic paper § Research, Survey, Position § Abstract, thesis (message), methodology, data, analysis, conclusion • Writing an academic paper § Conventions: language, format, style § Referencing: bibliography, citation, plagiarism • Presentation § Content & style § Delivery & timing
Choose partners • • • Team 1: Team 2: Team 3: Team 4: Team 5: Team 6:
Q&A • What else would you like to know? • It’s all on the website. • www. cs. uwc. ac. za/~btucker
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