Operating Systems and Systems Programming

Covers key concepts in computer systems through the lens of operating system design and implementation. Topics include threads, scheduling, processes, virtual memory, synchronization, multi-core architectures, memory consistency, hardware atomics, memory allocators, linking, I/O, file systems, and virtual machines. Concepts are reinforced with four kernel programming projects in the Pintos operating system. This class may be taken as an accelerated single-class alternative to the CS111, CS112 sequence; conversely, the class should not be taken by students who have already taken CS111 or CS112