582640 Operating Systems (4 op), Fall 2008
The lectures of this course are in Finnish. There will be an exercise session and a summary lecture in English on Friday afternoon. All course material is available in English.Exercise Questions for the weekly exercise/practise sessions are mainly from the course book.
Lecture material will be provided each week.
Announcements
- [27.10.2008] The grading guidelines are now available.
- [24.10.2008] The course results are now ready. Since some of the students were not actively doing the weekly exercises and the paper submissions or did not do well in those, I graded the course also based only on the exam, as if it was a separate exam. Each student got the better of these two grades.
- [8.10.2008] Remember to give feedback.
- [8.10.2008] Course exam starts on Wed 15.10 at 16.00 in auditorium A111. The student who has an overlapping Bioinformatics exam start the exam already at 14.00 in room B119. You are escorted to the actual exam room and may leave the exam only after 16.30 depending on the instructions in the auditorium.
- [22.8.2008] The first meeting is the first exercise session on Friday 5.9. For each weeking you are expected to solve the exercises in advance. It is important to be present whether or not you have solved these exercises. Without solving the exercises you are not eligible for the additional grading points from exercises.
Course book
Course book is A. Tanenbaum: Modern Operating Systems, third edition. Prentice Hall, 2008. It is available from book stores. The Kumpula science library will have one book in their course book reading shelf. They may also have few copies for loaning.
If you cannot afford the actual course book, you can try to do the course by reading the course book of previous years: W. Stallings: Operating Systems. Prentice Hall fifth or even fourth edition. The library has several copies of these. However, the book structure is slightly different so you need to map the content to the course structure by following the summary lectures.
Occationally some additional material may be needed to solve the homeworks or projects.
In addition to the two books mentioned above, you might be able to do the course by following some other good operating system book, like
- A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin, and G. Gagne: Operating System Concepts with Java, seventh edition. Wiley, 2007.
Enrollment
You must enroll to the course using the deparment's course registration system: Ilmo.
Course Structure and Schedule
Each week there will be an exercise session and an English summary lecture. Please notice that you need to read the materials on your own and also do the exercises in advance. There is no time to solve the questions during the class. We will mainly discuss about the solutions and make sure that everyone understands the question and the answers.Lectures Tiina Niklander
In Finnish 02.09. TI 14-16 B222, 04.09. TO 10-12 B222,
08.09.-09.10. MA 14-16, TO 10-12 B222
English summary 05.09-10.10. PE 14-16 C220
Practise sessions
1. Mika Karlstedt 04.09.-09.10. TO 16-18 C221 In Finnish
2. Tiina Niklander 05.09.-10.10. PE 12-14 C220 In English
Passing the course
The course has one course exam, weekly lectures and practise sessions. There is also one special question for each week. The answer to this must be submitted on paper.
The maximum number of points available is 60. Solving the normal weekly exercise problems can give you up to 6 points. Each weekly submitted solution can give you 0-3 points. The rest of the points are available from the exam.
To pass the course, you need to collect at least half of the points in the exam for each theme.
Please take id (student card, passport) with you to the exam. The Id needs to have your name and photo.
You also need to take pencils (or pens) with you to the exam. You may also take some snacks.
You are not allowed to have any notes, books or other written material available in the exam.
Old exams are available from the preceeding course Operating Systems II home page. Scroll down and look for link Prev. exams.