CS 350 - Assignment Information

Assignment Policies:

• General Assignment Information - The information in this document applies to all of the assignments.
• Slip Days - Submitting an assignment after the deadline.
• Group Policies - So you want to break-up...
• Assignment Submission: electronic (see the General Assignment Information)
• Assignment Pick-up: Marked assignments can be picked up during the IA's office hour, during the first two weeks after they have been marked. After two weeks they will be placed on the shelves outside MC4065, unless we are requested not to do so. Any unclaimed assignments will be shredded at the end of the term.
• Appealing your assignment marking:
  1. Contact the IA who has office hours (Richard).
  2. You may wish to fill out a reappraisal form and bring it along with you.
  3. Assignment appeal deadline is one week after the assignments have been returned.

Assignment Information:

• Request Assignment Information - Run a test compilation or view how many slip days your group has left

Using CVS and GDB

• Using CVS
• How to share files when working in a group
• Using GDB

Readings and Reference Material:

• An Introduction to Programming with Threads, by Andrew Birrell (Everyone must read this before doing assignment 1)
• MIPS R3000 Software Reference Manual
• ELF (Executable and Linking Format) Specification

OS/161: Installing, building, and running

• OS/161 information

Assignment Specifications:

Do not leave assignments until the last week. Start early!
Remember: late assignments receive a grade of 0%.

Assignment 0

• Due date: Due Date: Monday Sept. 17, 2007 (noon)
• NO SLIP DAYS
• Assignment 0 is to be done individually.
• Assignment 0 description.

Assignment 0a

• Due date: Due Date: Wed Sept. 19, 2007 (noon)
• NO SLIP DAYS
• Assignment 0a is to organize and register your project group. To do so, you should follow the instructions in the specification below.
• Assignment 0a description.

Assignment 1

• Due date: Due Date: Wed. Oct. 10, 2007 (noon)
• First read: An Introduction to Programming with Threads by Andrew Birrell
• Assignment 1 Description
• Assignment 1 Marking Summary Report
• Reappraisal deadline: Friday Nov 2, 1:30 pm
• Assignments can be picked up from the IA during his office hours until Friday Nov 9. After that, unclaimed assignments will be placed on the shelves outside MC4065.

Assignment 2

• Due date: Due Date: (Changed to Friday Nov. 9, 2007 (noon))
• Assignment 2 Description
• Assignment 2 Marking Summary Report
• Assignment 2 Test Scripts: Installing and Running
• Assignment 2: testbin programs and their system calls
• Appeal deadline: Thursday Nov 29 2:30 sharp
• Assignments can be picked up from the IA during his office hours until Thurs Dec 6. After that, unclaimed assignments will be placed on the shelves outside MC4065.

Assignment 3

• Due date: Due Date: Friday Nov 30, 2007 (noon)
• Assignment 3 Description
• Assignment 3 Marking Summary Report
• Assignment 3 Virtual Memory Statistics Code (GET AND USE)
• Assignment 3 Test Scripts: Installing and Running (Now Available)
• Submission information
• Appeal deadline: TBA
• Assignments can be picked up from the IA during his office hours until TBA. After that, unclaimed assignments will be placed on the shelves outside MC4065.

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