Welcome to CS 416 OS Design Course! This course will introduce you to the principles of Operating system design. The course will be a project-intensive course.

Basic Information

• Lecture: Mon, Thu
  
• Time: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
  
• Location: Zoom (Please see Sakai)
  
• Instructor: Sudarsun Kannan
  
• Office: Zoom (Please see Sakai)
  
• Office Hours Monday, 11:00am - 12:00pm

TA Hours

• Shaleen Garg (shaleen.garg@rutgers.edu) - Tue 9:30am - 10:30am
  
• Daniel Kim (dk844@scarletmail.rutgers.edu) - Fri 1pm - 2pm
  

Recitaion Instructors

• Sec01 : Mon 1:55pm - 2:50pm
  
• Sec02 : Thur 1:55pm - 2:50pm (Shaleen Garg)
  
• Sec03 : Tues 10:35am - 11:30am (Shaleen Garg)
  

Overview

• This course is designed for students who understand Systems programming.
• We will use Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, which is freely available online. Note: We will at times cover more advanced topics. We will provide you the materials to understand the advanced topics.
• Topics: See tentative schedule below.
• Exams: Two exams -- Midterm (25%) and Finals (25%)
• Projects: Four coding projects (40%), maximum group size of 2 students. You are welcome to work in groups or alone.
• Assignments: ~4 short assignments (10%). Assignments vary from Sakai quiz to simple programming exercise.
• Lectures: Recorded lectures will be made available through Sakai.
• Piazza: We will use piazza for answering questions about projects and other offline discussions.
• Communication: For email queries, please CC instructors and all TAs for faster response. Please add a [CS 416] prefix to your email's subject.

FAQs

• Students are welcome to attend any of the three recitations.
• We will update FAQs as we encounter more questions.

Class News

Self Assessment Quiz up, not graded
Project1 posted up, Feb 15, 2021 11:55 pm