CMSC421 -- Principles of Operating Systems
Syllabus
Instructor
Instructor: Gary Burt
Office: ECS 202B
Office Hours:
If my door is open, it is first, come first, any time.
TTh 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. "Formal Hours"
or by appointment
Telephone: 410-455-3928
E-mail: burt@cs.umbc.edu
Teaching Assistant
TA: Zhao Zhang
Office: ECS 334
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Telephone: 410-455-????
E-mail: zzhang@cs.umbc.edu
Class Time and Place
Monday and Wednesday 7:00 - 8:15 p.m., SS 409
Textbook
Operating System Concepts, Fifth Edition, Silberschatz and Galvin
Course Homepage
This course has a homepage where announcements, assignments and grades will be posted. You are expected to check the pages daily for updates. Many of the handouts and lecture notes will also be available off of the homepage.
The URL is:
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/courses/undergraduate/CMSC421/Fall99/burt
Grading
| 2-3 projects | 200 points each |
| a number of pop-quizzes | 100 points each |
| a number of homework assignments | 25 points each |
| written paper | 200 points |
| two tests | 100 points each |
| midterm | 200 points |
| final exam | 400 points |
Your final letter grade is based on the standard formula:
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90%+ A
80%+ B
70%+ C
60%+ D
Below 60% F
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Your grade is based on timely work accomplished during the semester; incomplete grades will only be given for medical illness or other such dire circumstances.
Project Submission and Grading
The critical skills cannot be learned simply by attending the class. You should budget enough time to work on the assignments as well.
You will be turning in your assignments electronically. Details will be announced in class before you need to submit assignments. When an assignment is turned in, the computer will time stamp it and that will show whether or not you are late.
Late assignments will be penalized three per cent for each day late. If you do not turn in the assignment, you will be given a score that is the negative number for that assignment. (A project worth 200 points will count as -200 if you do not turn it in. You can not pass the course if you are not doing the assignments!)
Project Policy
All projects must be completed by your own individual, creative effort. You should never have a copy of someone else's project either on paper or electronically under any circumstance. Also, you should never give a copy of your project, either on paper or electronically, to another student. This also means that you cannot "work" on the project together. Cases of academic dishonesty will be dealt with as severely as allowed by University policy.
If your project is turned in by someone else, both you and the person copying your project will receive a 0 for that project. This includes "substantially similar" projects. Furthermore, all parties concerned will have their prior projects checked for cheating.
Lectures and Readings
You are expected to attend all classes. You are responsible for all material covered in the lecture, even if they are not in the textbook. You are responsible for the material in the readings, even if they are not covered during lecture.
There will be supplemental material on the course web pages that you are will have to master in addition to the material in the book. You need to monitor the course web pages daily. All new material will be marked with a yellow icon and the word, along with the date the material was modified. That icon will remain for at least one week.
Exams
The exams will be closed book and closed-notes.
Wednesday, 01-Sep-1999 17:42:21 EDT