CS 153: Winter 2012

TA: Dorian Perkins (dperkins [at] cs [dot] ucr [dot] edu)

Lab: M 6:10 - 9 P.M. @ ENGR2 135
Office Hour: W 2 - 3 P.M. @ ENGR2 110

Announcements

Resources

Oracle provides a very nice set of Java tutorials to get you started. (a Hello World! example)

Java API documentation

Eclipse Debugging Tutorial

Nachos Javadoc (VERY USEFUL!)

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

MIPS Cross Compilers are available for use on personal machines (not supported)

Projects

Lab 0

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 Although Java may seem an odd choice, both the (outdated) C version of Nachos and the Java version focus on OS concepts; they are rather equivalent at a high-level.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

• Additional Nachos reference material 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!).
• Eclipse can be a very useful IDE
• Setting your PATH in Linux
• If you're stuck, try using pencil and paper