Operating Systems course guide To follow along with "Three Easy Pieces"

For each book section you will have to submit a reading record and fill out a brief online quiz, both due the night before the topic is to be discussed in class. The reading records are to be submitted in Canvas, and each should be a 2 minutes-or-shorter recording where you discuss 3 key things you learned and 1-2 questions you have. The quiz will also be available from Canvas and linking back to questions in this book.

These are both evaluated on "completion": As long as you submitted something and answers the quiz questions, you get a completion for that day. The percent of completed readings is one factor in your final grade.

There will be three exams to assess your level of understanding of the theoretical concepts. The first exam covers virtualization, the second deals with concurrency and the third with persistence.

Each exam will have 4 questions. If your answer to a question is considered sufficiently correct and thorough, that question is considered completed. The number of completed questions by the end of the term is a factor in your final grade.

There will be a total of 10 projects, requiring you to understand and modify the code of a small operating system. These have due dates. On a particular week you can either turn in the project due that week or one project from a previous week, but you can only submit one project on any particular week. Note however that there are some weeks without a new project, which is an opportunity to catch up on a project you had fallen behind on.

If a project submission is considered sufficiently thorough and correct, the project is considered completed. The number of completed projects contributes to your final grade.