Teaching Assistants

Vehbi Gunduz Demirci, Email: gunduz.demirci AT cs.bilkent.edu.tr; Office Hours: Tue 10:30-12:30; Room: EA505;
Cem Mergenci, Email: mergenci AT cs.bilkent.edu.tr; Office Hours: Thu 15:40-17:30; Room: EA405;

Graders

Caglar Terzi, Email: terzi AT cs.bilkent.edu.tr
Firat Karatas, Email: firat.karatas AT cs.bilkent.edu.tr
Mustafa Akin, Email: mustafa.akin AT cs.bilkent.edu.tr
Gokalp Urul, Email: urul AT bilkent.edu.tr

Textbooks

[Mandatory] Operating System Concepts, A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin, G. Gagne, 9th edition, Wiley, 2012. [[OS-Book]]
[Mandatory] [K&R book] The C Programming Language, by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, Prentice Hall PTR, 1998. (or any other C book)

Course Description

Introduction to Computer and Operating Systems; Processes; Threads; Interprocess Communication; Process Scheduling; Process Synchronization; Deadlocks; Memory Management and Virtual Memory; File Systems: Interface and Implementation; Mass-Storage Structure and Management; Input/Output Systems; Examples from Operating Systems such as Linux and Windows. Credit units: 4, Prerequisites: CS 202 and CS 224.

Topics

Introduction/Overview (Chapter 1 and 2)
Processes, IPC, and Sockets (Chapter 3)
Threads (Chapter 4)
CPU Scheduling (Chapter 5)
Synchronization (Chapter 6)
Deadlocks (Chapter 7)
Memory Management (Chapter 8 and 9)
File Systems (Chapter 10 and 11)
Secondary Storage Management (Chapter 12)
Input/Output (Chapter 13)
Protection and Security (Chapter 14 and 15)

Grading Policy

Quizes: 10%.
Projects:30%. Around 5 projects.
Homeworks: 5%. Around 3 homeworks.
Midterm 1: 15%. Closed book and notes.
Midterm 2: 15%. Closed book and notes.
Final exam: 25%. Will cover all topics. Closed book and notes.
Note that passing the course without taking a midterm exam is not possible. If you don't take an exam and the associated makeups you will get an FX from the course. You need to have a doctor report to take a makeup.
You should expect a makeup exam to be more difficult, since you have more time to study.
Students whose project average is less than a threshold value will not be able to pass the course (will get F), no matter what the other what the grades are. Threshold may be determined after final exams.
Attendance is mandatory. A student missing more than 5 hours will fail the course automatically (will get FZ or FX), no matter what the grades are.
Grades are posted to the SAPS system.

Other Information

There will be 4-6 projects. Projects are very important and will be done in Linux operating system using C programming language, unless otherwise stated. Every student needs to do her best to do a project. The teaching/learning approach of the course will be Learning by Doing. Therefore it is very important that you do the projects to really learn and understand in a long-lasting manner.
Quizzes and exams may include questions from homeworks and projects.
We may do a quiz at any time (pop-up quiz). One of the quizzes of a student will not be counted (the worst one), and therefore, there will be no makeup for the quizes. A quiz can not be taken from another section. If you miss a quiz, no matter what the reason is, you will get 0.
Some projects/homeworks may be done in groups.
You need to learn C immediately. Today, buy a C book and start writing some small C programs. Make sure that you can write programs in C.
All 4 hours in a week may be used.

Academic Honesty

Plagiarism is defined as the action of using or copying someone else's idea or work and pretending that you thought of it, or created it. Bilkent University requires that you be aware of the concept and dangers of plagiarism. In order to conform to international academic standards, you must respect the individual thoughts, ideas, and expressions of other authors in sources. In the exams, home-works, and projects in this course, occurrences of plagiarism will be seriously dealt with, leading to punishment through disciplinary procedures which call for a term or two terms of dispelling from the university.