Welcome to the website for Operating Systems (Spring 2024) at Johns Hopkins University!
This course covers the design and implementation of operating systems. In a series of assignments, students will implement significant parts of a realistic OS kernel.
All public information about the course (readings, assignments, etc.) will be posted on this website.
Use the links above to navigate the site. The Syllabus describes course policies. The Schedule is the schedule of readings and exams. The Assignments page has links to the programming assignments and indicates when they are due. The Resources page has links to useful resources.
Important links
- Courselore (ask questions here!): https://courselore.org/
- Gradescope (assignment submission): https://www.gradescope.com/
Check out the Gradescope Information page for information about logging into Gradescope. (Unless you added the course after the semester started, you’re likely already registered, and you can use these instructions to log in.)
Please email daveho@cs.jhu.edu if you need to get access to Courselore or Gradescope.
News
- Apr 18 — Assignment 4 is posted as an optional, extra credit assignment, due by Monday, May 6th by 11 pm (if your team chooses to submit it.)
- Apr 12 — Assignment 3b is due Friday, April 26th.
- Apr 11 — Assignment 3a has been updated with submission instructions.
- Mar 25 — Homework 4 (review material for Exam 2) has been posted on the Resources page.
- Mar 13 — Assignment 2 has been updated with submission instructions.
- Mar 13 — Assignment 3a is due Friday, April 12th.
- Feb 28 — Assignment 2 is due Friday, March 15th (soft deadline), with a hard deadline of Monday, March 25th.
- Feb 19 — Assignment 1 has been updated with submission instructions.
- Feb 9 — The first two homework problem sets (not required, not graded) are available on the Resources page. These will be useful for preparing for Exam 1.
- Feb 2 — Assignment 1 is due Friday, Feb 23rd by 11 pm. Note that the exact submission mechanism hasn’t been fully decided yet. We will update you once we have more information about this.
- Feb 1 — Assignment 0 will be submitted on Canvas rather than Gradescope. See the assignment description for details.
- Jan 28 — A video demonstrating how to get started on Assignment 0
on the ugrad machines
has been posted. In theory the same instructions should also work on the
grad machines. Note that you will need to create a copy of the
pintos-gdbscript to work around a compatability issue. (The video describes what you need to do.) - Jan 22 — Welcome back! Assignment 0 is due Friday, Feb 2nd by 11 pm.