UTEP CS 4375, Operating Systems, Spring 2025

Meeting Time: 9:00 - 10:20, Mon, Wed, Psych 308

Professor: Nigel Ward

     Office Hours: Mondays 3-4, Wednesdays 2:30-3:30, and by appointment, CCSB Room 3.0408.

Teaching Assistant: Chris Lawson

    Office Hours: Tu 9-11, Th 9-11 and 2-3:30, CCSB 1.0706

Overview: Syllabus

Textbooks

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, by Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau
• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie

Similar Courses

• CS 140, Professor Ousterhout, Stanford
• CS 537, Professor Arpaci-Dusseau, Wisconsin

• CS 377, Professor Barker, Bowdoin
• CS 14-712, Professor Kesden, CMU
• CS 372, Professor McKinley, UT Austin
• CS 416, Professor Krzyzanowski, Rutgers
• CS 337, Professsor Shenoy, UMass Amherst

Videos

• Dr. Freudenthal's Pipes Tutorial
• Kevin Drumm on Process Scheduling
• Kevin Drumm on Segmented, Paged, and Virtual Memory
• David Black-Schaffer on Virtual Memory (at least Lectures 1 - 4)
• Neso Academy Lectures
• Early Network Videos: Napoleon's Optical Telegraph, Long Distance (watch 0-2:20 and 10:10-10:45), TAT-1 at Cabinet of Curiosities (23:49 - 28:09)
• Networking: Computer Networks, Part 6 (watch 0 - 16:00), and DNS (watch all)

Tutorials etc.

• Unix / Linux Tutorial for Beginners, especially parts 1-5 and 8
• Python Network Programming, by David M. Beazley, mainly slides 1-38
• Socket Programming HowTo, by Gordon McMillan
• Sockets Documentation, for reference
• Containers vs. Virtual Machines, by IBM
• Process and Thread
• Process vs Thread
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming

Sample Tests: Test 1, Test 2, Final Exam

Code Bits

• chatbot-jr.txt
• spinner.py
• testMinishell.shx