Fall 2005 CS153

Lab Assignments:

• Lab 1: C for C++ programmers, notes.
• Lab 2: Process & IPC, notes.
• Lab 3: Processes and Threads, notes.
• Project 1: Build Your Own Shell, notes. A skeleton/framework to demonstrate how to use Flex, Bison, Readline library, as well as Automake and Autoconf is here. You are NOT required to use this. This is just a way of doing it.
• Lab 4: Semaphores & Shared Memory, notes.
• Lab 5: Project 2 discussion.
• Lab 6: Cancelled. Instead, extra office hours for Project 2.
• Lab 7: Lamport's clocks paper discussion. Won PODC Influential Paper Award: 2000.
• Lab 8: Cancelled due to Thanksgiving week.
• Lab 9: Anticipatory I/O discussion (slides from the author) & Project3 discussion. Project3's note is here.

Accounts:

• You will need a CS account in order to conduct the labs.

Attendance & credit:

• It is required that you attend all scheduled lab meetings on time. There is 1 point for just showing up :)

Notes:

• Do not cheat, plagiarize, nor collaborate without permission. Having said that, in-lab discussion and helping on another debug are allowed and encouraged. Discussion in projects is also allowed, however, avoid talking in code nor taking notes..
• Document your code.

Links:

• Microkernel vs monolithic debate