Readings and Assignments

Write a C++ program to generate 100 random integers and then sort them in ascending order. E-mail the program to the Instructor.

Change your Sort C++ program so that it has an interface (list of methods) in a .h file and an implementation in a .cpp file and a test program in yet another .cpp file.  E-mail all 3 to the Instructor.  You can define a C++ class if you wish but it is not mandatory.

AST 1.4,1.7
STDIO.h Introduction

Finish reading all of AST Chapter 1.

Program exercise 39 on AST page 452.

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AST 2.1 and 2.2
Windows pthreads

(notes on coroutines)

AST 2.3.1 to AST 2.3.4

Choose any operating system and any pthread library that you like.  What is the maximum number of threads that you can create?  E-mail the answer and your program to the Instructor.

AST 2.3.5 and 2.3.6
(notes on semaphores)

AST2.3.7
(notes on monitors)

Implement a semaphore program to synchronize the following process graph.  Put printfs at the beginning and end of each thread and a sleep(1) as the body. E-mail your verified output and program to the Instructor.

Project topic due

AST2.3.8, 2.3.9, 2.4.2
(notes on messages)

Write a program with multiple threads to test the character queue example in the notes. E-mail your verified output and the program to the Instructor.

AST Chap. 3
(notes on resources and management)

AST Chapter 6
File System intro.

volume notes; 
System Calls

FYI: Operating Systems Directions for the Next Millennium

File System design

Disk scheduling

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