Introduction to System Software, Spring 2003

Lectures are at 2:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Room 40 Shaeffer Hall.

• Wed Jan 22 Introduction
• Fri Jan 24 Chapter 2, Assemblers
• Mon Jan 27 -- grammar and parsers
• Wed Jan 29 -- lexical analysis
• Fri Jan 31 Chapter 3, Symbol Tables
• Mon Feb 3 -- hashing
• Wed Feb 5 Chapter 4, Forward References
• Fri Feb 7 Chapter 5, Extending the Example
• Mon Feb 10 -- expressions [last add]
• Wed Feb 12 -- compilers [possible date of Eid ul Adha]
• Fri Feb 14 Chapter 6, Conditonal Assembly
• Mon Feb 17 -- Macros
• Wed Feb 19 -- More Macros
• Fri Feb 21 Chapter 7, Linkers and Loaders
• Mon Feb 24 -- Linkers
• Wed Feb 26 -- Libraries
• Fri Feb 28 -- Review
• Mon Mar 3 Midterm Exam I
• Wed Mar 5 Chapter 8, Command Languages [possible date of Hijra]
• Fri Mar 7 -- Scripts [deadline to apply for May graduation]
• Mon Mar 10 Chapter 9, Sequential Devices
• Wed Mar 12 -- Device Independence
• Fri Mar 14 -- Direct Memory Access
• Mon Mar 17 -- Fri Mar 21 -- [Spring Break]
• Mon Mar 24 Chapter 10, I/O Queues
• Wed Mar 26 -- Interrupts
• Fri Mar 28 Chapter 11, Disks
• Mon Mar 31 -- Disk Drivers
• Wed Apr 2 -- Disk Scheduling Policies
• Fri Apr 4 Chapter 12, File Systems
• Mon Apr 7 -- File Access [last undergrad drop]
• Wed Apr 9 -- Directory Management
• Fri Apr 11 Chapter 13, Virtual Memory
• Mon Apr 14 -- Page Replacement Policies
• Wed Apr 16 -- Review
• Fri Apr 18 -- No class [Passover day 2, Good Friday]
• Mon Apr 21 Midterm Exam II
• Wed Apr 23 Chapter 14, Dynamic Storage Allocation
• Fri Apr 25 -- Buddy System and Boundary Tags
• Mon Apr 28 Chapter 15, Calling Sequences
• Wed Apr 30 -- Coroutines and Processes
• Fri May 2 Chapter 16, Schedulers
• Mon May 5 -- Preemption
• Wed May 7 Chapter 17, Concurrent Programming
• Fri May 9 Chapter 18, Security and Protection
• Final Exam Fri May 16, 12:00 Noon