Instructor:
Russell Lewis
russelll@arizona.edu

Instructor:
Ben Dicken
bddicken@arizona.edu

Meet our TAs

Lecture: MW 2:00-3:15 pm - Sahuaro Hall 101

Class Links:

• Read: Class syllabus
• Discord: https://discord.gg/jHgjXnrEyq
• Gradebook: D2L
• Study: zyBooks : (Use class code ARIZONACSC452-CSCV452Fall2023)
• Turn in your projects using GradeScope
  • Almost everybody should have already been auto-added to the GradeScope class; check your email

Struggling? Advising (and Campus Health) have provided lists of contacts to help you if you (or your friend) are in need of counseling or help.

• List of University Mental Health Services
• From Campus Health: crisis_resources_jan_2021.pdf
• From our Advising team: crisis_contacts.pdf

We will be using USLOSS (UNIX Software Library for Operating System Simulation) for our projects.

Documentation: projects/usloss-4.pdf

Supplements:
Terminals
Disks

Source: projects/usloss-4.7.2.tgz
Git: https://github.com/UA-CSC452/usloss

Where should you run USLOSS?

While it is possible to build and run USLOSS (and thus your project) on Mac and other UNIX-style environments, the only supported platform is Linux. You may run on:

• Docker (my recommendation)

• lectura.cs.arizona.edu

  (our department Linux server)
• Your own Linux machine (perhaps WSL or Cygwin would work???)

To run on Docker, run the container ghcr.io/russ-lewis/usloss (ideally, mounting a host volume at /root/YOUR_DIR_HERE). You will find that USLOSS is already installed for you, in the directory /root. See also: my document about how to install and run Docker: docker_intro.pdf

To run on Lectura, ssh to lectura.cs.arizona.edu and install USLOSS in your home directory as listed in the Documentation.

• Deck 00: Class Intro
• Deck 01: OS Concepts - Purpose and Compnents
• Deck 02: OS Concepts - Processes (original, outdated version)
• Deck 03: Intro to Interrupts
• Deck 04: Intro to Concurrency (original, outdated version)
• Deck 05: Messages (original, outdated version)
• Deck 06: Deadlock (original, outdated version)

Future Slide Decks (might change)

• Deck 06: Semaphores
• Deck 07: Files, Disks, and Filesystems
• Deck 08: Virtual Memory
• Deck 09: Virtual Memory (advanced usage)

This Google Sheet has the current Office Hours schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CMfeD6b5PXQ28pBOPerFTS1jnZe1tIEcApZ3j1CsDuk/edit?usp=sharing

Office Hours will be offered in person. If an Instructor or TA has to move them online for a special circumstance, they will announce it on the class Discord server.

Online Office Hours can also be arranged, for special circumstances (such as illness). Contact an Instructor or TA to see if they have any time available.

The best place to ask a question is on the Discord server. Please ask most of your questions there!

For all emails, please start the subject line of your email with:

   452: 

We will have two 50-minute midterms, as well as a 2-hour Final. Tests will be held in the classroom.

Tests will be held on the following days:

• Test 1: Wed, Oct 4
• Test 2: Wed, Nov 1
• Final: Fri, Dec 8, 1-3 pm

Project Phases will be due at 5pm, typically on Wednesdays. All projects will be turned in through GradeScope.

Item		Due	Headers, Testcases, and other files	Libraries
Phase 1 - Process Control	Milestone 1a	Wed 13 Sep	phase1a.tar.gz	libphase1-linux-x86_64.a libphase1-linux-arm64.a
	Milestone 1b	Wed 20 Sep	phase1b.tar.gz
Phase 2 - Mailboxes and Devices		Wed 11 Oct	phase2.tar.gz
more projects coming soon!
Redo Opportunity		n/a	n/a