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  • News forum
  • Syllabus (PDF)
  • Zed Shaw's "Learn C The Hard Way"
  • Daniel Weller's and Sharat Chikkerur's "6.087 Practical Programming in C" (MIT OpenCourseWare)
  • Learn Git (Codecademy)
  • Udacity's "How to Use Git and GitHub (Version Control for Code)"
  • GitHUb
  • Writing READMEs: Because Code is for Humans, Too (Udacity)
  • Markdown (Wikipedia)
  • Daniel Robbin's "Bash by Example"
  • Emacs Reference Card (PDF)
  • Linux Quick Reference (PDF)
  • Screen Reference Card (PDF)
  • Lawrence Angrave's "Systems Programming" wiki-book
  • Stephen Brennan's "Tutorial---Write a Shell in C"
  • Robert Morris' and Sam Madden's "6.033 Computer System Engineering" (MIT OpenCourseWare)
  • Before Memory was Virtual (Peter J. Denning) (PDF)
  • The Locality Principle (Peter J. Denning) (PDF)
  • Virtual Memory II (Peter J. Denning) (PDF)
Expand Collapse Week 1 Highlighted
  • What you should know at the end of Week 0
  • Syncing a fork
  • Reading assignment: "The Locality Principle," by Peter J. Denning (PDF)
  • Exercise: Wednesday, November 25, 2015
  • How to login to server from Windows without typing your password
Expand Collapse Week 2 Highlighted
  • FCFS simulation (C source code)
  • Review of Denning's "The Locality Principle" (PDF)
  • Simulation of Scheduling (PDF)
  • Simulation of FCFS scheduling (C source code)
  • Work due on Wednesday, December 2
  • Programming skills that I want you to be able to demonstrate.
  • More ideas for simulating the scheduling of processes.
  • Priority Queues (C source code)
  • Pointers to functions (C source code)
  • Pointers, arrays, and strings (C source code)
  • Slides with mathematics and code (LaTeX source code)
  • Practice Quiz (PDF)
  • Parents and children (C source code)
  • Exponential probability distribution (C source code)
  • Reading assignment: due Monday, December 7
  • POSIX Threads Programming
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  • Process control exercises (C source code in g-zipped tar file)
  • Presentation 2: assignment due Wednesday, December 9
  • Processes and threads in Java
  • Virtual memory study guide
  • Examination 1 (PDF)
  • Examination 1 (LaTeX)
Expand Collapse Week 4 Highlighted
  • "An Operating System for the Cloud," by G Pascal Zachary
  • "Technological Progress and the Perpetual Learning Curve," by G Pascal Zachary
  • "Inside Microsoft," by Stephanie D. Solomon
  • "Truth, Beauty, and the Virtual Machine," by David Gelernter
  • Bonsai (JavaScript library for graphics)
  • JavaScript | Codecademy
  • Simulating allocation of space on a disk (zipped HTML/CSS/Javascript)
  • IEEE Computer Society: Computing Conversations
  • Work due during Week 4
  1. CSC311-4 2015
  2. Week 4
  3. "Truth, Beauty, and the Virtual Machine," by David Gelernter

"Truth, Beauty, and the Virtual Machine," by David Gelernter

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