CS 161: Operating Systems

Tuesday/Thursday 1:00-2:30

Professor	Teaching Fellows
Margo Seltzer	Daniel Margo: dmargo@eecs.harvard.edu
Maxwell Dworkin 241	Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30 - 4:00
margo@eecs.harvard.edu	Mark Mazumder: mazumder@seas.harvard.edu
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/margo	Office Hours: Wednesday 4-6
617-496-5663	Nick Murphy: nmurphy@eecs.harvard.edu
Office hours: Monday 1:00-3:00	Office Hours: Thursday 6-8

FINAL EXAM HERE
2009 Final Posted
2009 Midterm Posted Answers
Section notes are posted
Section times and locations going forward have been determined:
- Mondays 4-5:30 MD 123
- Tuesdays 4-5:30 MD G135

Computer Science 61 or permission of instructor.

Tanenbaum: Modern Operating Systems (required)

This course is an introduction to operating systems. After completing this course, you should be able to:

Explain how operating systems provide the abstractions with which programmers and users are familiar.
Work effectively with a partner.
Design, implement, modify, and analyze complex software systems
Undertake different types of design projects including: implementing to a well-defined interface, designing appropriate interfaces to provide specified functionality, extending an existing body of code.
Explain through examples how violation of good design and coding practices lead to security problems.
Analyze how operating systems problems are addressed in different systems and understand why particular approaches were taken.

Course Requirements	Course Policies
Class participation (10%)	In lieu of class participation, students may send comments/questions (regularly) via email.
Six homework assignments (50%)	No late days for assignments 0 and 1
Midterm (15%)	Assignments 2-5 completed in teams of 2
Final take-home exam (25%)	5 total late days for assignments 2-5