Textbooks

Required Reading

Operating Systems: Principles and Practice, Second Edition. Thomas Anderson and Michael Dahlin. ISBN-13: 978-0985673529 Note: Some of you have asked whether you can use the First Edition. The two editions look very similar at 30,000 feet so if you have first edition, feel free to use it at your own risk.

C

• All of Programming
• C for Java Programmers
• Kernighan & Ritchie: The C Programming Language ("K&R" for short) (the classic C reference; on reserve in the Engineering library)
• C Programming Notes (notes on K&R)
• Errata for The C Programming Language, Second Edition
• Brian W. Kernighan - Programming in C A Tutorial
• A C Programming tutorial from Strathclyde University. That's in Scotland.. :-)
• C Style Guide
• The Development of the C Language - a paper on the history of development of the C language, by Dennis Ritchie.

Python

• Python Tutorial
• Dive Into Python
• Think Python

Suggested Additional Readings

• On Operating Systems Implentation:
  
  • The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System.
    McCusick et. al.
    Addison Wesley, 1996.
  
  
  • Understanding the Linux Kernel
    Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati
    O'Reilly, 2000.
  
  
• On concurrent programming:
  
  • An introduction to programming with threads.
    Andrew Birrell
    Research Report 35, Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, 1989.
  
  
  • The Little Book of Semaphores. Allen B. Downey.
  
  
• On networking:
  
  • Networking protocol overviews
  
  
  • End-to-End Arguments in System Design.
    Jerome H. Saltzer, David P. Reed, and David D. Clark.
    Second International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pages 509-512.
    ACM Transactions in Computer Systems 2, 4, November 1984, pages 277-288.
  
  
  • Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks
    Robert M. Metcalfe and David R. Boggs
    Communications of the ACM, 7, Volume 9, July 1976
    
  
  
  • Congestion avoidance and control
    Van Jacobson
    Proc. of SIGCOMM, Vol 18, No 4, August 1988
    
  
  
• On filesystems:
  
  • The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System.
    Mendel Rosenblum and John K. Ousterhout.
    ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1991.
  
  

  Supplemental Textbooks

  	Operating System Concepts (9th Edition) Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne. This is the older textbook used in the course from 2001-2011. As a result many of the figures in our lecture notes (the blue and grey ones) come from this book. It is no longer required, but contains an alternative perspective on the same material.
  	Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition) Andrew Tanenbaum. If you would like additional information or a different perspective on the topics covered in this course, this supplemental textbook is an excellent resource.