CS360 -- Systems Programming

Jian Huang --- Fall 2011

Labs

See CS360 Lab Home Page for information from your TA's about labs. The source tree example is under the class directory: /home/huangj/cs360/hello.tar.gz.

All labs are due by midnight (11:59PM) on the due date. No exceptions can be made, unless an extension was given via the class mailing list or compelling reasons such as significant illness exist. Late submissions incur 20% penalty per day.

All lab assignments must be completed to a degree deserving more than 60% credit, be it a late submission or not, for a student to pass this course. If a student fails to meet this requirement by the time final exam is held, the student automatically fails this course.

Every student is allowed one late lab submission during the entire semester. This is meant for situations out of your control but do not qualify for exceptions. Use it wisely!

Lab 1 -- Fields/dlist/rbtree primer	Due: August 31
Lab 2 -- Buffering	Due: September 7
Lab 3 -- Fakemake	Due: September 14
Lab 4 -- Jtar	Due: September 28
Lab 5 -- Assembler	Not required in Fall 2011. The link kept alive for reference.
Lab 6 -- Jmalloc	Due: November 9
Lab 7 -- Jsh	Due: November 30
Lab 8 -- Threads	Not required in Fall 2011. The link kept alive for reference.

One thing new this semester is that we will require you to use subversion for all lab assignment. Subversion (svn) is an industry standard way of maintaining source code and using it allows a much more professional way of software development, testing and documentation. On the first lab session (Wednesday, August 24) our GTAs will run a tutorial of svn, particularly how it will be used this semester. If you cannot attend that lab session, you would be required to learn to use svn on your own.

In addition, another new policy for this year is to require actual test cases developed during code development to be included with every lab submission. Without sufficient test cases, your lab submission will incur a penalty of up to 20% of your lab score.