COSC 360: Operating Systems

Spring 2025

Course Resources

General	Syllabus OSTEP (our textbook is available online for free!) Example code for all of the book chapters
Software and Other Resources	Virtual Machines (software to virtualize entire computer systems) For Windows users with an Intel/AMD chip: VirtualBox WSL (technically not a virtual machine) Hyper-V For Mac users with an Intel or Apple Silicon chip: UTM (recommended) VirtualBox VMware Fusion Linux: An open-source operating system (Note: If you are on a 64-bit x86 Intel/AMD machine, download the x86_64 version of Linux. If you are on an ARM machine such as Apple Silicon, download the aarch64 version of Linux) Fedora Linux (I recommend the latest version of the “Workstation” version, and find that Fedora works best when virtualizing with something like VirtualBox or UTM) Ubuntu Linux Other flavors Linux Setup Instructions: In case you want to install a full copy of Linux on your own computer How To Run the Textbook Code: Instructions for compiling and running C code PicoCluster Tutorial: Instructions for connecting to PicoCluster
C Tutorials	learn-c.org Tutorials Point Programiz w3schools Books from Amazon
Linux Command-Line Tutorials	command-line-tutorial.readthedocs.io Tutorial from Ubuntu Tutorials Point Books from Amazon
Terminal-Based Text Editor Tutorials	vim-adventures openvim tutorialspoint (Vim) How to learn Emacs Emacs Tutorial The Beginner’s Guide To Nano
Videos	Coming soon…
Study Guides	Coming soon…
Projects	Project 4S Project 5S
Simulators / Code	Chapter 4 (process-run.py) Chapter 5 (fork.py)

Course Schedule

Week	Date	Topics	Due
1	Feb 4th (Tuesday)	Course Introduction, PicoCluster, The Linux OS For next time: Read the syllabus, log in to PicoCluster and familiarize yourself with Linux, and get the textbooks.
	Feb 6th (Thursday)	Installing Linux For next time: Familiarize yourself with Linux. Make sure you have access to Linux (either via PicoCluster, UTM, VirtualBox, WSL, VMware Fusion, etc.)
2	Feb 11th (Tuesday)	Introduction to Operating Systems, The Linux Command Line For next time: Read the first two chapters of OSTEP. Continue familiarizing yourself with Linux, install CyberDuck on your own computer, download the code from the book and move it over to PicoCluster (or whatever virtual machine you are using).
	Feb 13th (Thursday)	Processes For next time: Make sure to have read Chapters 1 and 2 in OSTEP, and now start reading Chapters 3 and 4. Project 4S is now posted.	Read OSTEP Chapters 1 and 2
3	Feb 18th (Tuesday)	Process API For next time: Finish reading Chapters 3 and 4, and start reading Chapter 5. Start reading just the beginning of LPG (Linux Pocket Guide). Project 4S is now posted.	Read OSTEP Chapters 3 and 4
	Feb 20th (Thursday)	Direct Execution For next time: Start reading Chapter 6 in OSTEP. Finish reading LPG (Linux: A First View). Project 5S is now posted.	Project 4S Read OSTEP Chapter 5 Read LPG (What’s In This Book? Practicing With This Book, Getting Help)
4	Feb 25th (Tuesday)		Read OSTEP Chapter 6
	Feb 27th (Thursday)	SIGCSE 2025 - NO CLASS
5	Mar 4th (Tuesday)
	Mar 6th (Thursday)
6	Mar 11th (Tuesday)
	Mar 13th (Thursday)
7	Mar 18th (Tuesday)
	Mar 20th (Thursday)
8	Mar 25th (Tuesday)	SPRING HOLIDAY - NO CLASS
	Mar 27th (Thursday)	SPRING HOLIDAY - NO CLASS
9	Apr 1st (Tuesday)
	Apr 3rd (Thursday)
10	Apr 8th (Tuesday)
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11	Apr 15th (Tuesday)
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12	Apr 22nd (Tuesday)
	Apr 24th (Thursday)
13	Apr 29th (Tuesday)
	May 1st (Thursday)
14	May 6th (Tuesday)
	May 8th (Thursday)
15	May 15th (Thursday)	Final Exam (11:30PM - 2:00PM)