IFSC 2315 Information Systems Software II

IFSC 2315: Information Systems Software

OBJECTIVE:

An operating system is a program that acts as an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware. We introduce the concepts in operating systems including process management and storage management.

TIME: MW 3:05 pm – 4:20 pm

LOCATION: ETAS 208

INSTRACTOR: Dr. Xiaowei Xu

Office hours: Thursday 01:30 pm – 02:30 pm

Other hours by appointment

Office location: ETAS 259A

Email Address: xwxu@ualr.edu

Home page: http://ifsc.ualr.edu/xwxu

PREREQUISITE: Java Programming Language

REQUIRED TEXT: Operating System Concepts with Java (7th Edition)

AUTHOR: Galvin, Siberschatz, Gagne, and Silberschatz

PUBLISHER: John Wiley and Sons

ISBN: 0-471-76907-X

WWW: http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/os-book/os7j/index.php

Online UNIX Tutorial for Beginners http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

Week	Date	Topic
1^st Week	1/14	Syllabus
1^st Week	1/16	Introduction Assignment 1
2^nd Week	1/21	Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, No classes
2^nd Week	1/23	Introduction Assignment 2
3^rd Week	1/28	Introduction
3^rd Week	1/30	Introduction Assignment 3
4^th Week	2/4	Operating-System Structures
4^th Week	2/6	Operating-System Structures Assignment 4
5^th Week	2/11	Operating-System Structures
5^th Week	2/13	Operating-System Structures Assignment 5
6^th Week	2/18	Processes
6^th Week	2/20	Processes Assignment 6
7^th Week	2/25	Introduction to UNIX
7^th Week	2/27	UNIX Tutorial One Assignment 7
8^th Week	3/3	UNIX Tutorial Two
8^th Week	3/5	UNIX Tutorial Three Assignment 8
9^th Week	3/10	UNIX Tutorial Four
9^th Week	3/12	Review
10^th Week	3/17	Midterm Exam
10^th Week	3/19	Independent Study Install to your home PC/laptop Cygwin
11^th Week	3/24	Spring Break, No classes
11^th Week	3/26	Spring Break, No classes
12^th Week	3/31	Unix V
12^th Week	4/2	Unix VI Assignment 9
13^th Week	4/7	Unix VII Final Project Due: 5/5/2008
13^th Week	4/9	Unix VIII Assignment 10
14^th Week	4/14	Interprocess communication
14^th Week	4/16	Interprocess communication Assignment 11
15^th Week	4/21	Interprocess communication lab: Producer & Consumer: shared memory solution IPC solution
15^th Week	4/23	Interprocess communication lab: Sockets RMI
16^th Week	4/28	Independent Study: Final Project
16^th Week	4/30	Independent Study: Final Project
17^th Week	5/5	Final Project Presentation

ATTENDANCE: Regular attendance is expected of all students.

EXAMINATIONS: Midterm and final

ASSIGNMENTS: Homework may be assigned from questions at the end of each chapter and other sources. All projects and assignments must be completed and hard copies and diskette(s) turned in by the beginning of class on the due date. No late assignments will be accepted.

COLLUSION: Unless otherwise stated Collusion on assignments is strictly prohibited. Doing so will earn you and the student(s) you copied from grades of zero and a request to drop the course.

METHOD OF EVALUATION:

Assignments and projects: 50

Midterm exam and final: 50

GRADING SCALE:

A: [90-100]

B: [80-90)

C: [70-80)

D: [60-70)

F: below 60

Disability Support Services: It is the policy of UALR to accommodate students with disabilities, pursuant to federal law and state law. Any student with a disability who needs accommodation, for example in arrangements for seating, examinations, note-taking should inform the instructor at the beginning of the course. It is also the policy and practice of UALR to make web-based information accessible to students with disabilities. If you, as a student with a disability, have difficulty accessing any part of the online course materials for this class, please notify the instructor immediately. The chair of the department offering this course is also available to assist with accommodations. Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact Disability Support Services, telephone 501-569-3143 (v/tty), and on the Web at http://www.ualr.edu/dssdept/.