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Lots of notices that were also covered at the start of week 4's Monday lecture.
- The "give" setup for assignment 1 and the advanced version should now
work. There are some challenges in configuring "give", especially the
auto-test mechanisms. Bear with us if there are outages.
- The "give" system should now know about ELS/ELP extensions. It should be
possible to query your deadline using "give". You might need to provide a
dummy file with the correct name (which the auto-test should then reject).
If something seems to be wrong with the deadline you are told, please contact
us via email.
- Our script for creating gitlab repositories fails and skips students who
don't seem to have accounts on the gitlab instance. If you've never logged
in to it, please log in to the gitlaand check if your repository exists.
We are a little surprised how many students don't seem to have done this yet.
- We have tweaked the assignment spec a few times. For instance, if you
couldn't get the sources via gitlab and fetched from the website, the kernel
build might fail (because you have the Part 5 adjustments already). There are
some new hints in the assignment spec how to proceed.
- There was an issue with the secret messages for advanced part 2. If you've
done that already, check the website and see if your secret message has changed.
- We've been asked repeatedly about assig codes). The key is to match
expectations. If you want to pair up with an existing contact, make sure they
plan on doing roughly the same amount of advanced parts as you. Note that
students in Ext-OS have constraints on this, and pairs are meant to work together
on every submission. There is a process for managing uneven contributions and
pair splits, but we don't want to apply that process unless we really have to.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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