Operating Systems (Undergraduate), Spring 2022

Overview

This course mainly introduces operating systems. Successful course participants will,

Understand basic machine organization, including processors, main memory, and input/output architecture.
Understand the basics of the memory hierarchy, including virtual memory and caches, and how these are implemented in hardware and software.
Understand the core concepts of operating systems, including processes, threads, synchronization, memory management, and file management strategies.
The idea of the course is to learn how computers really work, from the chip level up to the application level. You will understand what is actually happening when a computer system is running a set of programs, and will be able to make informed choices as a developer, project manager, or system customer.

Requirements: Programming Language (C/C++/Python/Java), Data Structure, Computer Organization.

Lecture time: Monday 10:00 PM - 11:40 PM, Thursday 14:00 PM - 15:40 PM
Classes: 80 (48 lecture classes + 32 project classes)
Weeks: 1st week to 16th week
Location: Room 312, Lower Building

Instructor

Name	Email	Office	Tel	Office Hours
Minyi Guo	guo-my AT cs.sjtu.edu.cn	Room 415 SEIEE Building #3	(021) 3420 4438	By appointment
Chentao Wu	wuct AT cs.sjtu.edu.cn	Room 513 SEIEE Building #3	(021) 3420 8230	By appointment

Teaching Assistant

Name	Email	Office	Tel	Office Hours
Xinyu Wang	wxycrocodile1782 AT sjtu.edu.com	303B, Building 4 in Zizhu		By appointment
Mizhipeng Zhang	1156564544 AT sjtu.edu.com	303B, Building 4 in Zizhu		By appointment

Course Policies

Teamwork

Students are encouraged to talk to each other, to the course staff, or to anyone else about any of the assignments. Assistance must be limited to discussion of the problem and sketching general approaches to a solution. Each student (or team) must write out his or her own solutions to the homework. Any forms of copying code is strictly prohibited.

Late Policy

The deadline for any assignment can be extended with a 10% penalty per day.
No deadline can be extended by more than three days. Assignments will NOT be accepted 72 hours after the due date.
If you are ill: Contact the instructor and get a medical note.

Cheating

Cheating is NOT tolerated! Please read the SJTU's Academic Code of Conduct if you are not familiar with the definition of cheating. If you are caught cheating on an assignment, you will get a zero for that assignment. Other repercussions are also possible.