Topic outline

  • General

    • Announcements Forum

      Dear Students,

      Welcome to the course CSE324 (Operating Systems Lab) !! Myself Md. Sabab Zulfiker. I am looking forward to the opportunity so we will have to learn and grow together in this course.  I always believe that your success is most important to me as a teacher.  Please don’t hesitate to contact me in case of having difficulties with the course materials and any other academic problems. To smooth this operation, general questions related to the courses should be posted on the Discussion Forum.  If you have any question for which you are not interested to post in Forum, then you can send your query via email for a quick response. My contact information is mentioned below. Success in an online class requires just as much work and effort as success in a traditional classroom. Lastly, I am expecting much cooperation from all of you. Hope we will enjoy this journey joyfully.

      Stay safe and healthy. Thanks all of you for joining with this course.

      Best Regards,

      Md. Sabab Zulfiker



      Welcome Video:

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      Name:       Md. Sabab Zulfiker
      Designation: Lecturer
      Office Address: AB-4(509), Department of CSE, DIU, Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka
      Email:  sabab.cse@diu.edu.bd


    • Course Rationale

      The course aims to explore the importance of the operating system, its function and different techniques used by the operating system to achieve its goals as resource manager. The course also explores how application interacts with the operating system and how the operating systems interact with the machine. Also, the course shed light on some of the existing operating systems and how the topics taught in the course are applied in these systems. Some topics in the course are implemented by witting the programs to practically know how.


    • Course Objective

        • To introduce Basic Linux general purpose Commands
        • To learn different programming language in Linux editor environment and implement different Operating system algorithm
        • To learn about file management and different types of permission setup.
        • To understand how system processes work and how to manage them 
        • To work with system logs and remote connection tools 


    • Course Outcomes (CO’s)

      CO1

      Experiment with Unix commands and shell programming.

      CO2

      Able to build shell program for process and file system management with system calls.

      CO3

      Able to implement and analyse the performance of different algorithm of Operating Systems like CPU scheduling algorithm, page replacement algorithms, deadlock avoidance, detection algorithm and so on.

      CO4

      Able to design and develop a course project that can have positive impact on environment or society or mankind.





    • Books

      Textbook

      Unix Shell Programming- Yashavant P. Kanetkar

      Reference Books

      Operating System Concepts, 9th edition by Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne

      Teach Yourself Unix Shell Programming in 14days-Kamran Husain


    • Grading Scheme:

      Attendance                : 10%

      Lab Performance     : 25%

      Project / Report        : 25%

      Final Exam                 : 40%

    • Attendance:

    • Student Feedbacks:

  • Week 1: Introduction

    Topic of Discussion

      • Introduction to Linux, Linux Installation,
      • Introduction to Shell

    Expected Learning Outcome

      • Install Linux OS
      • Work with some Shell Commands

  • Week 2: Discussion about course projects

    Topic of Discussion

      • List of projects
      • Team formation
      • Project planning and fixing deliverable

     Expected Learning Outcome

      • To form a team and select a project through submission of proposal


  • Week 3: Introduction to Linux tools

    Topic of Discussion

    • Introduction to Linux tools- Linux files, Directories, Root, File Permissions, Working with files and directories, Disk related commands

     Expected Learning Outcome

    • To Work with Linux files and directories


  • Week 4: Introduction to Shell Scripts

    Topic of Discussion

      • Introduction to Shell Scripts
      • Shell Variables, Shell Keywords, and Write simple Shell program
      • Project Follow Up

    Expected Learning Outcome

      •  Create simple Shell script Debug and process scripts
      • To update project with further development


  • Week 5: Decision making

    Topic of Discussion

      • Decision making – If-else, Case

     Expected Learning Outcome

    • Write Shell programs related with decision making 


  • Week 6: Review Class and Loop control structure

    Topic of Discussion

      • Loop control structure
      • Project Follow Up

     Expected Learning Outcome

      • Write Shell programs related with Loop control structure
      • To update project with further development


  • Week 8: Function and Methods

    Topic of Discussion:

      • Adding and removing users
      • Daily administrative works, File management.
      • Disk management, monitoring system and ensuring system security
      • Project Follow Up

     Expected Learning Outcome

      •  To be able to work as an administrator
      • To update project with further development


  • Week 9 and 10: Implementing algorithms

    Topic of Discussion

      • Processes in Linux, Process Scheduler, Deadlock avoidance
      • Project Follow Up

    Expected Learning Outcome

      •  Work with process related commands
      • Write computer programs for various scheduling algorithms
      • Write programs for deadlock avoidance algorithm
      • To update project with further development


    • Week 11: Final Team Project Presentation

    • Week 12: Lab Final