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CMPSCI 596/696:  Operating Systems Design (an Independent Study)

(Fall 2003)

Course Description

Students will meet with the instructor once a week to review their  progress in the independent study.

Course Information

Class Discussions: LGRC 222, Thursday 4:00-5:00 
Credits: 3

Course Staff

• Instructor:Prashant Shenoy


Department of Computer Science,
Computer Science Building
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003-4610

Phone: (413) 577 0850, Fax: (413) 545 1249
Email: shenoy@cs.umass.edu
Office Hours: Friday 4:00-5:00 pm, Room 336, or by appointment

• Teaching Assistant:  Huan Li


Email: lihuan@cs.umass.edu

Study Plan:

1. warm-up : exercise 1 and 2. If you never touch these materials before,  you'd better do these exercises within one or two weeks. They are  suggested but not required.

2. Exercises required: Exercise 4, 5, 7 or 9, 10 or/and 11. All students are required to do 4 and 5. For under_grads, you can choose  one from 7 and 9, one from 10 and 11. For grads, you can choose one out of  7 and 9, but you need to do both 10 and 11.

Since there are four/five exercises, we suggest you to finish each of  them within three weeks.

On the submission, please create a sub_directory named cs596, and make it  readable by the "group", not by the others,. Also please create a sub_directory for each exercise under cs596 directory.  The submission should include:
(1). you source code (enough in-line comments)
(2). a document about:
---- the problem and the design of your program
---- how to run your program including the test results if needed
---- how much time you spent on this exercise
---- what you have learned from it, and any suggestion about it.

We will have a regular meeting every Thursday 4-5pm. The target of the  meeting is to discuss the problems you met. Since you are a studying group for the whole course, you may need help from others. The mailing address for this course is: cs596@cs.umass.edu .