CSE451

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CSE451

• Introduction
• Andrew Whitaker

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Agenda

• Meet the instructors
• TODOs
• Course Philosophy
• Course Logistics

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The Staff

• Andrew Whitaker
• Office Hours MF, 330-430, Allen 214
• Aaron Kimball
• William Rossiter

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Stuff to do

• Read the course web page
• http//www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/451
  /06au/
• Create project teams of three
• Email to ak_at_cs.washington.edu
• Sign up for the email list
• Start reading the text
• Skim chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3, Sections 1-3

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Course Philosophy

• Learning is the most important thing
• Learning can come from many sources
• Reading is important
• Class time will be devoted to synthesis

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Course Logistics

• No homework assignments -)
• Instead, we will distribute sample test
  questions
• There will be 4-5 mini-quizzes
• Should be easy if youve done the reading
• Team-based projects

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Projects

• Two flavors
• Modifying the Linux kernel
• Written in C
• Applications that utilize OS features
• Primarily written in Java

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Grading

• Quizzes 15
• Lowest quiz score dropped
• Quiz 1 email project teams to ak_at_cs.washington.ed
  u
• Projects 40
• Midterm 20
• Final 25

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Rough Syllabus

• Operating systems overview (1 week)
• Threads and concurrency (3 weeks)
• Virtual memory (1 week)
• File and storage systems (3 weeks)
• Distributed Systems (1 week)
• Other topics???

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Questions??