CS 350 - Reading Materials

Text Book

Operating System Concepts, 7th Edition. Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. John Wiley and Sons, 2004.
On reserve in the DC library, call number: QA76.76.O63 P475X 2005 (3 hour loan), or call number: UWD 1631 (3 hour loan)
Authors' web page, including errata (PDF)
Publisher's web page, claims to include practice study questions

Tutorials on C++, Gdb, etc.
Assemblers, Linkers and the SPIM simulator.
This provides excellent information on the MIPS hardware/software interface. Including stack frames, procedure calls, exceptions, interrupts, etc.

Subject	Text Readings	Notes	Tablet PC version	Course Notes Covered
Introduction; Background and Overview	Chapters 1-2	2-up	1-up	All
C Primer	None	2-up mem.c write.c addr.c	1-up	All
Processes and Threads	Chapters 3 (3.1-3.3) and 4 and the paper An Introduction to Programming with Threads,	2-up	1-up	All
Synchronization	Chapters 3 (3.4, pp. 96-98), 6 (excluding 6.9), and 7	2-up	1-up	All
The Kernel and System Calls	Chapter 2 (2.3 and 2.4)	2-up	1-up	All
Memory Management	Chapter 8	2-up	1-up	All
Virtual Memory	Chapter 9	2-up	1-up	All
Scheduling	Chapter 5	2-up	1-up	All
I/O	Chapters 12-13	2-up	1-up	Slides 1-3, 8, 10-22
File Systems	Chapters 10-11 (excluding 11.9, 11.10)	2-up	1-up	Slides 1-4, 16-19, 26-43
Interprocess Communication and Networking	Chapter 3 (3.4-3.6)	2-up	1-up	Slides 1-5
Security	Chapters 14-15	2-up	1-up	??