Start of classes for EECS 3221M Winter 2019.

Lecture notes for the next few classes will be posted in the CSE3221M course directory on red: /cs/course/3221M

The topics for Assignment 1 will be made available in the file /cs/course/3221M/3221_topics

The topic study slides and the topic study report are due on the last day to hand in term work, that is, Wednesday April 3, 2019, 23:59.

You are required to hand in hard copies, and electronic copies of all assignments. Although you may use PowerPoint slides for the in-class presentation, the required format when electronically submitting the report and presentation slides is PDF.

Please use the “submit” command to submit electronic copies of all assignments, including topic studies presentation slides and reports, programming assignment reports and source code, etc., to the course directory /cs/course/3221/submit. Use the command “man submit” to learn how to use the “submit” command.

The EECS 3221M midterm test will be held at the following time:

Time: Monday February 11, 2019, 19:00-22:00

Location: LAS C

The Midterm Test will cover the following:

a) Chapters 1-5 of the textbook “Operating System Concepts” 10th Edition.

b) All the slides in OS_ch1.pdf, OS_ch2.pdf, OS_ch3.pdf, OS_ch4.pdf, OS_ch5.pdf as well as all the material covered in the lectures up to and including the Monday February 4, 2019 lecture. Please make sure that you have the most up-to-date version of the lecture notes.

It is possible that the Midterm Test may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that require calculations, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, questions that may require the writing of short programs using pseudo C code similar to that used throughout the textbook, and other possible question formats.

- Please note that, in order to make sure that everyone in the class gets exactly the same information regarding the midterm and final exam, the instructor will not answer individual e-mail questions regarding what will be on and what will not be on the midterm and final exam, because that would not be fair to those students who do not receive such information. - If you have any questions related to the midterm or final exam, please ask such questions during the lectures.

Please note that course component marks, when available, can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:

courseInfo 3221M 2018-19 W

Reading the first 4 chapters, that is, pages 1-129, of the book “Programming with POSIX Threads” by David R. Butenhof (This book is currently on reserve at Steacie Science Library, Call Number QA 76.76 T55 B88 1997), will not only be helpful for understanding the material on POSIX Threads & Concurrency in Chapter 4 of the textbook, but will also be important for doing the second assignment.

Regarding Assignment 1 (Topic Study):

Each group is required to have 6 students currently enrolled in the class. (Unfortunately, students who are on the waiting list cannot form a group with other students to reserve a topic.)

Topics are “First-Come-First-Served”. After organizing a group with the required number of 6 students, each group may send by e-mail to the instructor the list of the student names in the group, and reserve one of the topics below. Please note that only a whole group of 6 students can reserve a topic.

Please also note that the deadline for forming a group of 6 students and reserving a topic is Monday January 21, 2019, 23:59.

Topics are to be presented in the same order of the time of reservation of the topics. If a group is the first group to select and reserve a topic, then that group will be the first group to present their reserved topic.

For each presentation date, the topic title and the names of the students in the group will be listed.

For all students that have not joined a group and selected a topic by the deadline of Monday January 21, 2019, 23:59, such students will be randomly assigned to groups, and each of such groups will be randomly assigned to one of the available topics, and the topic presentation dates will also be randomly assigned.

Please note that the same groups for Assignment 1 (Topic Study) will also be used for completing Assignment 2 and Assignment 3, which are programming assignments.

Please note that:

(1) EECS 3221 Section M Assignment 2 has been posted in the file “3221assgn2_W19.pdf” in the course directory /cs/course/3221M on the Red machine. The due date to hand in Assignment 2 is Monday February 25, 2019, 19:00.

(2) All students who did not join a group and select a topic by the posted deadline of Monday January 21, 2019, 23:59 have now been randomly assigned to groups, and each of such groups have been randomly assigned to one of the available topics, and the topic presentation dates has also been randomly assigned. Please see the file “3221_topics” in the course directory /cs/course/3221M on the Red machine for details regarding the group/topic/date assignments.

(3) Due to the weather conditions York University closed on Monday January 28, 2019. The topic presentations originally scheduled for January 28 have been re-scheduled to take place on Monday Monday February 25, 2019. Please see the file “3221_topics” in the course directory /cs/course/3221M on the Red machine for details.

The EECS 3221M Midterm Test will be held at the following time and location:

Time: Monday February 11, 2019, 19:00-22:00

Location: LAS C

The Midterm Test will cover the following:

a) Chapters 1-5 of the textbook “Operating System Concepts” 10th Edition.

b) All the slides in OS_ch1.pdf, OS_ch2.pdf, OS_ch3.pdf, OS_ch4.pdf, OS_ch5.pdf as well as all the material covered in the lectures up to and including the Monday February 4, 2019 lecture. Please make sure that you have the most up-to-date version of the lecture notes (some of the lecture notes were most recently updated on February 5, 2019, 11:43).

It is possible that the Midterm Test may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that require calculations, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, questions that may require the writing of short programs using pseudo C code similar to that used throughout the textbook, and other possible question formats.

- Please note that, in order to make sure that everyone in the class gets exactly the same information regarding the midterm and final exam, the instructor will not answer individual e-mail questions regarding what will be on and what will not be on the midterm and final exam, because that would not be fair to those students who do not receive such information. - If you have any questions related to the midterm or final exam, please ask such questions during the lectures.

Please note that course component marks, when available, can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:

courseInfo 3221M 2018-19 W

(The above information was also previously announced in the January 7, 2019 Announcement, and also announced during the lecture on Monday February 5, 2019).

Please also note that EECS 3221M Winter 2019 Midterm Test Practice Questions (with answers) are now available in the file “3221M_midterm_practice_questions_W19.pdf” in the course directory /cs/course/3221M on the Red machine.

Please note that, if a student does not attend the EECS 3221 Winter 2019 Midterm Test but is able to submit a valid official York University Registrar's Office Attending Physician's Statement

https://registrar.yorku.ca/pdf/attending-physicians-statement.pdf

which specifically states that the student's medical condition makes it impossible for the student to take the EECS 3221 Winter 2019 Midterm Test, then the original percentage (35%) of the EECS 3221 Winter 2019 Midterm Test in the final course grade, will be added to the original percentage (50%) of the EECS 3221 Winter 2019 Final Exam in the final course grade. This means that, for any student who does not attend the EECS 3221 Winter 2019 Midterm Test but is able to provide a valid official York University Registrar's Office Attending Physician's Statement, the resulting new percentage of their EECS 3221 Winter 2019 Final Exam in the final course grade will be eighty five percent (35% + 50%) = 85%.

Students who miss the EECS 3221 Winter 2019 Midterm Test without submitting a valid official York University Registrar's Office Attending Physician's Statement, will receive a mark of zero for the EECS 3221 Winter 2019 Midterm Test.

York University Registrar's Office has announced that the EECS 3221 W19 Section M Final Exam will be held on Thursday, April 18, 2019, 9:00 A.M., at ACE001.

Please note that EECS 3221 Section M W19 Midterm Test marks are now available, and can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:

courseInfo 3221M 2018-19 W

Please note that EECS 3221 Section M W19 Assignment 3 has been posted in the course directory in the file: /cs/course/3221M/3221assgn3_W19.pdf

Please also note that the due date of this assignment, Wednesday April 3, 2019, 23:59 falls on the Last Day to Hand In Term Work according to the University Regulations. Thus it will not be possible to postpone the due date of this assignment. So please plan carefully in advance in order to make sure that you will be able to complete this assignment before the posted due date.

The EECS 3221 section M W19 Final Exam will be held on:

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019, 9:00 AM;

Location: ACE 001.

https://registrar.yorku.ca/exams

The Final Exam will cover the following:

a) Chapters 1-7, Chapters 9-10 of the textbook “Operating System Concepts” 10th Edition.

b) The slides in OS-ch1.pdf, OS-ch2.pdf, OS-ch3.pdf, OS-ch4.pdf, OS-ch5.pdf, OS-ch6.pdf, OS-ch7.pdf, OS-ch9.pdf, OS-ch10.pdf, as well as all the material covered in all the lectures up to and including the Monday April 1, 2019 lecture. Please make sure that you have the most up-to-date version of the lecture notes.

It is possible that the Final Exam may include true/false questions, fill in the blank questions, questions that require short answers, questions that require calculations, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, questions that may require the writing of short programs using pseudo C code similar to that used throughout the textbook, and other possible question formats.

- Please note that, in order to make sure that everyone in the class gets exactly the same information regarding the midterm and final exam, the instructor will not answer individual e-mail questions regarding what will be on and what will not be on the midterm and final exam, because that would not be fair to those students who do not receive such information. - If you have any questions related to the final exam, please ask such questions during the lectures.

Please note that course component marks, including the final exam marks, when available, can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:

courseInfo 3221M 2018-19 W

Please note that the EECS 3221M Assignment Drop Off Box is located outside the EECS Department Office at Lassonde 1012.

Please note that no more requests for re-marking of course components of EECS3221 Winter 2019 Section M can be submitted.

Please note that course component marks, including the final exam marks, for students who have participated in those components of the course, can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:

courseInfo 3221M 2018-19 W

The EECS Department has sent the following email to all EECS3221M W19 students who did not write the EECS3221M W19 Final Exam:

“Dear student,

You have been given permission by the EECS department to write the EECS3221M W19 deferred final exam on June 10th, 6 - 9pm. You will be notified soon with the exact location. This deferred exam will only be held once, at this date and time.

This permission is effective irregardless of whether your petition has been granted, is in process, or you have not submitted a petition. Please remember deferred work takes precedence over current term work.

You must bring your student ID to write this exam.

Kind regards,

Sam Hann ”

The EECS Department has also sent the following email to all EECS3221M W19 students who did not write the EECS3221M W19 Final Exam:

“Hello,

Your deferred exam will take place in LAS 3033. Please be on time and remember to bring your student ID card.

Good luck,

Sam ”