Syllabus

Schedule and Outline
Week #	Start Date	Topic
	Jan 30, Thr	Registration
1	Feb 3, Mon	Introduction to Computer Systems and Operating Systems
2	Feb 10, Mon	Holiday (Kurban Bayramı)
3	Feb 17, Mon	Processes: Processes, Threads,
	Feb 24, Mon	Last Day of Add/Drop
4	Feb 24, Mon	Processes: Scheduling
5	Mar 3, Mon	Processes: Interprocess Communication, Classical IPC Problems
6	Mar 10, Mon	Processes: Deadlocks (detection, recovery, avoidance)
7	Mar 17, Mon	Memory Management: swapping, virtual memory
8	Mar 24, Mon	Memory Management: page replacement, paging systems
9	Mar 31, Mon	Input/Output: I/O Hardware, I/O Software
10	Apr 7, Mon	Input/Output: disks, clocks, terminals
11	Apr 14, Mon	File Systems: files, directories
12	Apr 21, Mon	File Systems: file system implementation
	Apr 23, Wed	Holiday (23 Nisan Ulusal Egemenlik ve Çocuk Bayramı)
13	Apr 28, Mon	Distributed Systems
14	May 5, Mon	Protection and Security
15	May 12, Mon	Case Studies: Linux, Windows XP, FreeBSD
	May 19, Mon	Holiday (19 Mayıs Gençlik ve Spor Bayramı)
	May 20, Tue	Final Exams Start
	May 30, Fri	End of Academic Year

Grading Policy (certainly tentative)
Homeworks: 15 %
Quizes: 10 %
Projects: 30 %
Midterm Exam: 25%
Final Exam: 25 %

Attendance: Attendance is important in order to learn the topics in a timely manner. Attendance will be forced either by taking attendance explicitly or by making quizzes at random times.
Quizzes: There will quizzes every week or every other week. We may not inform you about the quizzes. A quiz may be done at any time during a lecture period.
Homeworks: Homeworks will be assigned about the topics that are taught. Homeworks may include small-scale programming, running commands, doing configuration on real operating systems.
Projects: Projects are very important for a course of this kind. We will assign projects that will require substantial amount of programming in C language. The projects may be about developing some internal modules for a real operating system and/or writing programs that make use of low-level service interface (system calls) of operating systems. The projects may be about processes, threads, virtual mamory, synchronization, inter-process communication, file management, I/O handling, etc.
We will be very careful in grading the projects and homeworks so that everybody gets the grade that he/she deserves. Copying will not be tolerated and will checked rigorously.
Midterm Exam: There will be one midterm exam that will be given around the mid of the semester.
Final Exam: There will be one final exam that will be given during final exams period of the semester.
Makeup Exam: Depending on the need (for officially reported or extraordinary cases) I may make a makeup exam. But I should warn you that makeup exam will be much more difficult than the other exams in order to provide fairness for students who work on time and take the exam on time, and discourage students from unnecessarily omitting the exams.

Instructor: Dr. İbrahim Körpeoğlu korpe@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Phone: 290-2599 Office: EA 408 Office Hours: Any time when I am in the office	TA: Huseyin Ozgur Tan hozgur@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Phone:290-1401 Office: EA-529 Office Hours: ??	TA: Ata Turk atat@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Phone:290-1401 Office:EA-529 Office Hours: ??
Class Hours: Section 1 (Mon: 9:40-10:30, Wed: 10:40-12:30 Section 2 (Mon: 13:40-14:30, Thu:13:40-15:30) Classroom: EB 204