CS 153: Spring 2011

TA: Adam Dou (jdou *at* cs.ucr.edu)

Office Hours: Thursday 3:40 - 4:40 PM, EBUII 226 (or by appointment)

Resources

Oracle (the company that bought java) provides a very nice set of tutorials to get you started. (a Hello World! example)

Nachos 5.0j is a Java application written to perform the functions of a real operating system. This is also the system we will be using for our projects this quarter

Projects

A significant element of this class are programming projects using the (Java version of the) Nachos instructional operating system. Although Java may seem an odd choice, both the (outdated) C version of Nachos and the Java version focus on OS concepts; they are rather equivalent at a high-level.

We have prepared a modified version of Nachos for this course. (use: tar xvfz nachos-153.tgz to extract)

• Project 0: Introduction to Nachos
• Project 1: Threads
• Project 2: User Programs
• Project 3: Virtual Memory

Tips

• Apr 13, 2011 - Added an additional Nachos reference material page, updated Eclipse page.
• Look at the javadoc for the functions you use, and related functions. It has lots of nachos invariants and secret tips. Reading other nachos code is useful too, to see what tools are provided to you (lots!).
• If you're stuck, try using pencil and paper :D
• Eclipse can be a very useful IDE when you're coding.