Syllabus
Section R6
Class Meeting: 06:05-08:10PM, Thursday
Classroom: Room 236 Ingersoll Hall Extension (IA-236)
Instructor
Hui Chen, Ph.D.
Office Hours: 9:30 - 11:30, Monday and Wednesday
Office: Room 1432N Ingersoll Hall
Phone: (718)951-5000 ext. 2055
E-mail: chen@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Overview
3 hours; 3 credits
Organization and programming of executive control systems. Batch processing, multiprogramming, multiprocessing, and time-sharing systems. File system organization and management. Access and protection control. Resource allocation. Control systems languages. Mathematical models of computer systems. This course requires a substantial amount of programming. (Not open to students who have completed CIS 7300X [703X] or a course in operating systems.)
Prerequisite: Computer and Information Science 6006X [622X] or a course in data structures; and Computer and Information Science 6007X [627X] or an undergraduate course in computer organization.
Learning Objectives
This course is for graduate students who need a background in operating systems. The objectives of the course are as follows.
- Students are to gain an understanding of interactions between software and hardware including those between operating systems and hardware, and those between applications and operating systems.
- Students are to gain familiarity with major issues in the design and implementation of modern operating systems and essential algorithms and data structures to deal with the issues.
- Students are to gain system programming experience and familiarity with the solutions to some issues in large applications design, such as, concurrency and resource management.
- Finally, as a graduate class, students are to have experience in current systems research, to be able to identify and familiar some problems in current systems research, and to have exposure in system research skills, methods, and tools.
Textbook
Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Herbert Bos. 2014. Modern Operating Systems (4th ed.). Prentice Hall Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA. [ CUNY Bookstore ]
Academic Regulations and Procedures
All students should carefully and thoroughly read the section entitled "Academic Regulations and Procedures" in the Brooklyn College Undergraduate or Graduate Bulletin for a complete listing of academic regulations of the College.
Academic Integrity
The faculty and administration of Brooklyn College support an environment free from cheating and plagiarism. Each student is responsible for being aware of what constitutes cheating and plagiarism and for avoiding both. The complete text of the CUNY Academic Integrity Policy and the Brooklyn College procedure for policy implementation can be found at http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/policies. If a faculty member suspects a violation of academic integrity and, upon investigation, confirms that violation, or if the student admits the violation, the instructor shall report the violation to the College.
Student Disability Services
In order to receive disability-related academic accommodations students must first be registered with the Center for Student Disability Services . Students who have a documented disability or suspect they may have a disability are invited to set up an appointment with the Director of the Center for Student Disability Services, Ms. Valerie Stewart-Lovell at (718)951-5538. If you have already registered with the Center for Student Disability Services, please provide the instructor with the course accommodation form and discuss your specific accommodation with the instructor.
Consideration of Religious Observance
New York State Education Law (Title I, Article 5, Section 224-a) requires that the College
makes available to each student who is absent from school, because of his [or her] religious beliefs, an equivalent opportunity to make up any examination, study or work requirements which he [or she] may have missed because of such absence on any particular day or days.
If you are unable to attend classes or take examinations, the instructor is happy to accommodate you as permitted by semester schedule and other constraints there may be ; however, it is recommended that you make arrangement with the instructor in advance. You may also contact Ron Jackson, Division of Student Affairs , if you have questions about accommodations for religious observance.
Important Dates
These are important dates that undergraduate students should pay attention to.
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Friday, February 2 | Last day to add a course |
| Monday, February 5 | Last day to file for elective course Pass/Fail |
| Friday, February 16 | Last day to drop a course without a grade |
| Tuesday, February 20 | Conversion Day; Classes follow a Monday Schedule |
| Friday, February 23 | Deadline to apply for the Language and Comprehensive Exams; Deadline to submit thesis title through Thesis Submission Online |
| Wednesday, April 11 | Conversion Day; Classes follow a Friday Schedule; Language Exams |
| Monday, April 16 | Last day to withdraw from course with a W (non-penalty) grade |
| Friday, May 4 | Deadline to upload approved thesis via Thesis Submission Online |
| Monday, May 7 | Last day to resolve Fall 2017 and Winter 2018 incomplete grades (INC) |
| Thursday, May 24 | Deadline to file for Maintenance of Matriculation |
For the complete College calendar, check out the Spring 2018 Academic Calender, Brooklyn College.
Attendance
Class attendance is required unless prearrangement is made with and approved by the instructor, or is permitted by Federal and State laws and regulations and the policies of of the College.
Reference to the state law regarding non-attendance because of religious beliefs is in p. 65 in the Undergraduate Bulletin or p. 41 of the Graduate Bulletin.
The instructor will pass and collect an attendance sheet at the beginning of each class, and students are required to sign the attendance sheet within the first 15 minutes of the class.
Late Attendance
Students should arrive at class on time. A late attendance is treated as missing half of the class, and is penalized as such when attendance score is computed.
Assignments and Examinations
Practice Assignments
The instructor assign practice assignments each week. Some of these assignments may be assigned in class and expected to be completed in class. Some of these assignments are expected to be completed after class. These practice assignments are small assignments whose purpose is to help students review lecture material.
These assignments are individual assignments that require students to complete independently.
Grading of Practice Assignments
For each assignment, a student would receive either an accepted or unaccepted grade. A student's percentage of accepted assignments from the random inspection, periodic evaluation, and the final inspection will be used in the student's final grade calculation as discussed in the Grade Calculation section.
Projects
For each major area of study, a project will be assigned. Projects are required to be completed in student teams. The purpose of the project is to provide students with sufficient practice and ample exploration to master the knowledge and skills pertinent to the area, and learn to collaborate in a team setting.
Teaming and Collaboration
The instructor will place each student randomly in a team of 3-5 students.
Students are required to maintain regular meetings either in person or online. For online meetings, the instructor recommends Google Hangouts and will give a brief instruction about it.
Students are required to use a Git system to manage their project code, issues, and collaboration. The instructor has adopted the Github Classroom for this purpose.
Grading of Projects
Students' projects are graded by both the instructor and the students' peers. The students will provide a peer evaluation. The instructor will provide an evaluation on the quality of the projects. Both of the student peer evaluations and the instructor's evaluations will be used in the student's final grade calculation. A student's may receive a lower grade than the project quality grade if the student makes far few contributions than her or his team members. In an extreme case, a student who does no make any contribution to the project as evidenced by the peer evaluation and Github commit logs may receive no points on a project.
Midterm Examination
A midterm examination will be given. An advisory midterm grade will also be issued in the week following the midterm.
Final Examination
A final examination will be given in accordance with the College Final Exam Schedule .
Assignment Submission Guideline
The instructor adopts the Github Classroom to manage assignments. The students submit their work to Github by commiting their work using a Git client and pushing their work to their Github repositories.
The Github Classroom repository invitation links for this class will be distributed in class.
Late Submission
Late submissions are accepted, but penalized with 20% of penalty or one letter grade lower each day late. For instance, if a team submits a project one day late, the grade of the project will be lowered from A to B, B to C, and so on. This penalty scheme also implies that a student will receive 0 on a submission of 5 or more days late.
Grade Calculation
Students final score is calculated on the scale of 100 as follows,
This table contains grading components and calculation
| Component | Percent |
|---|---|
| Attendance | 10% |
| Practice Assignments | 10% |
| Projects | 30% |
| Midterm Examination | 20% |
| Final Examination | 30% |
| Total | 100% |
Letter Grade
Your final letter grade will be given as follows according to the following table,
This table specifies how letter grades are assigned.
| Final Score | Letter Grade |
|---|---|
| 90 - 100 | A |
| 80 - 89 | B |
| 70 - 79 | C |
| 60 - 69 | D |
| 0 - 59 | F |
Course Website and CUNY Blackboard
The instructor posts syllabus, course schedule, and lecture notes on the Class Website, and posts assignments, assignment grades, and advisory grades on CUNY Blackboard.