Welcome Notices
Wednesday Lecture Uploaded (Posted by Thomas, Wed Jul 2) |
The Wednesday lecture has now been cross-processed from Zoom to Echo360
and is available in the regular Echo360 lecture series. Thanks for bearing
with us during the wild weather, and catch (some of) you in person after
flex-week!
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Assignment 2 Released (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jul 1) |
Assignment 2 is fully released now, see the full spec linked in the menu.
Good luck with it! |
Week 4 notices (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jun 24) |
Lots of notices that were also covered at the start of week 4's Monday lecture.
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Assignment 1 Updates (Posted by Thomas, Thu Jun 19) |
The Assignment 1 spec is now up to version 3.
This includes details of how to get the concurrency tests for Part 5 and Part A-1.
We've also put up more information about the Extended-OS advanced-part rules, and
some info for students concerned about these rules, see the forum post.
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Assignment 1 Released (Posted by Thomas, Sun Jun 15) |
We've now released assignment 1.
The specification is now linked on the main menu. See the spec for all
the details. There will be a quick overview in Monday's lecture.
Ask questions on the forum.
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King's Birthday Pre-recorded Lecture (Posted by Thomas, Mon Jun 9) |
I've put up a 1-hour lecture on Echo360 that completes the
discussion of concurrency and synchronisation mechanisms that
we began in Week 1. Catch you on Wednesday for the implementation
details of threads and system calls.
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More on Moodle (Posted by Thomas, Sun Jun 8) |
For reasons out of our control, the moodle site has "COMP3891" in
its name, but not "3231" or "9201" or "9283".
I've put a link on the menu bar that may help in finding it.
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First Extended Lecture (Posted by Thomas, Thu Jun 5) |
The first Extended OS lecture is coming up soon! The slides are now
up on the website. We're still working on the moodle/Echo360 issues
related to the extended components. For now, the extended component
will be recorded and the recording made available this afternoon
(possibly via a workaround link on the forum again). It's more fun
to cover the extended content interactively. Please attend the lecture
if you can, we don't plan to try to support hybrid-mode interactive
participation in the extended lectures.
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Week 1 Wednesday Lecture (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jun 3) |
We believe the moodle issue is now solved, and Echo360 recordings
should now be available to everyone. This may allow live streaming.
I will also post a zoom link in the forum again today.
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Week 1 Monday Recording (Posted by Thomas, Tue Jun 3) |
We are aware of an issue in getting access to moodle and Echo360.
We understand that faculty admins are looking into it.
For now, a backup recording has been posted in a temporary place,
linked in a couple of places on the forum.
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Week 1 Monday Lectures Slides Up (Posted by Thomas, Sun Jun 1) |
The lecture slides for both halves of tomorrow's lecture are now up.
Also, congratulations to the students who already got started on
the warmup assignment, found an issue, and reported it in the forum.
That should be fixed now.
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Discourse Forum (Posted by Thomas, Mon May 26) |
This year we'll be using Discourse rather than Ed for our forum.
Information about getting connected to the Discourse forum is now
on this website. You should be able to reach the forum by just
clicking the link on the menu (under "Support"). Apologies if you see old
references to Ed/Edstem forums (or even older websites) anywhere. If
there are issues connecting to the forum, let us know.
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Welcome to OS in 2025! (Posted by Thomas, Wed Apr 2) |
The course website will take shape soon. For now, it is mostly empty,
with various assignment-related resources copied over from last year.
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