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-**EECS4221/5421 Test 1 will be held on Thursday, February 14, 2019, 10:00-11:30, as previously scheduled**.
+**EECS4221/5421 Test 1 will still be held on Thursday, February 14, 2019, 10:00-11:30, as previously scheduled**.
 Test 1 will include:
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 (Please also note that the same information regarding EECS4221/5421 Winter 2019 Test 1 above was also previously announced in the January 3, 2019 Announcement, and that the EECS4221/5421 Winter 2019 Test 1 will still be held on the previously scheduled date of Thursday February 14, 2019, 10:00 a.m., and will not be affected by the cancellation of the Tuesday February 12 EECS4221/5421 lecture due to York University adopting Weather Emergency Procedures on Tuesday February 12, 2019.)
+===== February 21, 2019 =====
+Please note that for the EECS 4221/5421 Alternative Programming Assignment 1, you may also use **Debian Linux** instead of Angstrom Linux or Ubuntu Linux on the BeagleBone Black board.
+===== February 26, 2019 =====
+Please note that the EECS 4221/5421 (Non-programming) Project (40% of course grade) has been posted in the
+EECS 4221/5421 course directory on the Red machine: /cs/course/4221/4221project_W19.pdf
+The due date for the EECS 4221/5421 (Non-programming) Project is:
+ **Wednesday April 3, 2019, 23:59**.
+===== March 6, 2019 =====
+Please note that EECS 4221 W19 Test 1 marks are now available, and can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:
+courseInfo 4221 2018-19 W
+===== March 28, 2019 =====
+EECS4221/5421 Test 2 will be held on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 10:00 a.m.
+Test 2 will include:
+(a) Material covered in the lectures, with emphasis on material covered in the lectures since Test 1 and up to and including the lecture on Thursday March 28, 2019;
+(b) Material in the slides OSD.4.1.pdf, OSD.5.pdf, OSD.6.pdf in the course directory;
+(Although there are no books that cover all the material in the slides in OSD.5, however, reading Chapter 5, “Kernel Synchronization”, of the book, “Understanding the Linux Kernel”, 3rd Edition, may help understand some of the material on synchronization in the slides in OSD.5.pdf. Reading Chapter 1 to Chapter 3 of the book “MicroC/OS-II The Real-Time Kernel”, 2nd Edition, may help understand some of the material on μC/OS-II in the slides in OSD.6.pdf. Both books have been put on reserve for 2-hour loans at Steacie Library)
+It is possible that Test 2 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 writing short programs using pseudo C code similar to that used in the slides, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.
+MAKE SURE YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALTHOUGH THE EMPHASIS OF TEST 2 WILL BE ON MATERIAL THAT HAS NOT BEEN TESTED SO FAR, THE MATERIAL IN TEST 2 MAY STILL DEPEND ON KNOWLEDGE OF PREVIOUS MATERIAL.
+PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE USING THE MOST RECENT/UP-TO-DATE VERSION OF THE SLIDES/LECTURE-NOTES TO PREPARE FOR TEST 2, AS THE SLIDES/LECTURE-NOTES MAY HAVE BEEN MODIFIED TO IMPROVE CLARITY OR TO REMOVE ERRORS.
+ALSO NOTE THAT DRAWING THE SAME KIND OF DIAGRAMS AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE SLIDES, WILL BE AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF TEST 2.
+Also please note that, unfortunately, I am unable to provide individual answers to individual student questions regarding what kind of questions may be included, or not included, in the tests, beyond what I had said during the lectures and what has been posted on the course website above.
+The reason is because doing so will be unfair to other students in the class who do not receive the same information.
+For all questions regarding tests, please ask me during the lectures so that everyone in the class would have equal opportunity to know my answers to any questions regarding any test.
+Thank you for your understanding.
+Please note that the EECS4221 course component marks, when available, can be accessed by logging in to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:
+courseInfo 4221 2018-19 W
+===== April 1, 2019 =====
+EECS 4221 W19 students who have chosen to do an Alternative Programming Project,
+are requested to provide a short demo, preferably immediately after
+Test 2, that is, around Tuesday April 2, 11:30 a.m.
+EECS 4221 W19 students can choose a way that is considered by the students to be the most convenient way to do the demo of their project,
+for example, either in the lab using the lab facilities,
+or in the lab using students' own laptop and equipment, etc.
+===== April 23, 2019 =====
+Please note that course component 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 4221 2018-19 W