Office: Science 2420
Telephone: extension 4208
E-mail: walker@cs.grinnell.edu
Office hours are posted weekly on the bulletin board outside my office.
Additional hours can be scheduled by appointment.
If you wish, you may reserve a half hour meeting by signing up on the weekly
schedule.
Gary Nutt
Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective, Second Edition,
Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN: 0-201-61251-8.
In addition, a reference book on the C programming language may be of
interest. While many such books exist, students might want to consider one
or both of the following standard references:
Samuel P. Harbison and Guy L. Steele, C: A Reference Manual, Fourth
Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-326224-3, 1994.
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language:
ANSI C Version, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-110362-8, 1988.
While the schedule for this course is expected to evolve, a Tentative Class
Schedule is available on-line in .dvi , postscript , and pdf formats.
Also, if you are logged into the departmental network and want a copy
printed, click duerer to
have a copy printed on the printer duerer, and click pacioli to
have a copy printed on the printer pacioli
This course will involve laboratories, written assignments, programs, and
tests.
Late Penalty: Work is due at the start of class on the date
specified in the assignment. A penalty of 33 1/3 % per class meeting
will be assessed on any work turned in late, even work submitted at
the end of a class. Thus, work turned in 4 days late will be weighted
-33 1/3 %; since a negative score reduces a semester total, it is better
not to turn the work in at all.
Absolute Deadline: All homework must be turned in
by Friday, December 8 at 5:00 pm.
The work in this course is split between individual and group work. Thus,
as a general rule, students are encouraged to work together on laboratory
exercises. However, since this course seeks to develop individual
understanding and mastery as well, collaboration normally is not allowed on
written assignments, programs, or tests. To avoid possible confusion, the
rules for each assignment are clearly indicated on the course's assignment sheet.
Exception: Deadlines for programming problems and laboratory
exercises are automatically extended at least one class day if MathLAN
is down for an unscheduled period of 3 or more hours during the
week preceding the assignment due date. (In such cases, however,
deadlines for written assignments are not extended.)
