CS 350 - Assignment Information

Assignment Policies:

• Slip Days - Submitting an assignment after the deadline.
• Assignment Pick-up: Marked assignments can be picked up during the IA's office hours, during the first two weeks after they have been marked. After two weeks they can be picked up from the instructor's office until the end of the term. Unclaimed assignments will be shredded at the end of the term.
• Assignment marking reappraisal requests:
  
  If there is a problem with the marking your assignment, you may request that your assignment be reappraised. To do this:
  • Print and fill out a reappraisal form, on which you should describe (briefly) what the problem is.
  • Drop your form off with the course instructor after lecture or during office hours.
  For each assignment there will be a deadline for reappraisal requests.

Reference Material:

• CVS
  • Using CVS - a short overview of CVS, not OS/161-specific.
  • Setting Up CVS for use with OS/161 - specific instructions for using CVS with OS/161 at Waterloo
• git
  • Git Magic
  • Git Reference
  • Git Manual
  • Git Tutorial
  • Links to the Pro Git Book, references, vidoes, etc.
• Subversion (SVN)
  • documentation at apache.org
• GDB Online Documentation from www.gnu.org
• MIPS R3000 Software Reference Manual
• ELF (Executable and Linking Format) Specification
• An Introduction to Programming with Threads, by Andrew Birrell

OS/161 Information

OS/161 Essentials

• OS/161 Installation Guide for the student.cs computing environment
• OS/161 Installation Guide for other machines (FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS FOR WORKING FROM HOME)
• Working with OS/161 - how to build, run, and debug OS/161 kernels
• Debugging OS/161 with GDB
• OS/161 and tools FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
  Be sure to read this if/when you experience problems installing or runnning OS 161 or the other tools for this class (including installing on a personal machine).
• Manuals and Code
  • Browseable OS/161 source code
  • Browseable OS/161 man pages
  • The sys161 manual. This information is also available in the sys161 source code distribution.

Other OS/161 links

• A paper about OS/161 from SIGCSE 2002.
• The OS/161 home page at Harvard.

Submitting Your Work and Checking Your Submission

• Overview of cs350_submit - how to submit your work and check that it will compile for marking

Assignment Specifications:

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

Assignment 0

• Due Date: Wednesday May 14 (noon)
• Assignment 0 is to be done individually.
• Slip days may be used.
• Assignment 0 description.
• Assignment 0 hints.

Assignment 1

• Due Date: Wednesday June 4 (noon)
• Assignment 1 is to be done individually.
• Slip days may be used.
• Assignment 1 description.
• Assignment 1 hints.
• Assignment 1 marking report.
• Mark reappraisl deadline: Thursday July 10th

Assignment 2a

• Due Date: Monday June 23 (noon)
• Assignment 2a is to be done individually.
• Slip days may be used.
• Assignment 2a description.
• Assignment 2a hints. (Read this before starting the assignment)
• Mark reappraisl deadline: Friday July 25

Assignment 2b

• Due Date: Monday July 7 (noon)
• Assignment 2b is to be done individually.
• Slip days may be used.
• Assignment 2b description.
• Assignment 2b hints. (Read this before starting the assignment)

Assignment 3

• Due Date: Monday July 28 (noon)
• Assignment 3 is to be done individually.
• At most two slip days may be used.
• Assignment 3 description. Revised!
• Assignment 3 hints.