CS 4410

Resources

Course Management

  • Assignments will be disseminated via Cornell Github. Make sure you have an account and can provide us with your username (likely your netID, but not if you changed it!) when the time comes.
  • Assignments will be collected via CMS:

Computing Environment

It is important that you develop your code in the same computing environment that we will use to test your code. We are using the CIS Undergraduate Computing Lab Servers as the standard for this course. You may either ssh into these machines remotely or download a snapshot of the machines and run them as a VM on the local machine of your choice.

  • SSH OPTION: the simplest method is to ssh into the machines remotely. There are 10 of them (cisugcl01.cs.cornell.edu, ... cisugcl10.cs.cornell.edu). If you simply ssh into ugclinux.cs.cornell.edu you will be randomly connected to one of them. (This offers good load-balancing. There is just one file system so it doesn't matter which one you log on to.)
  • VM OPTION: to run a VM in VirtualBox on your local machine:
    1. Install VirtualBox
    2. Download the CS VM SP2017 file
    3. Launch the .ova file downloaded and accept defaults to import into VirtualBox.
    4. Default username: vm and password: vm

Coding Resources

Textbooks

Our primary textbook is Operating Systems: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition), by Tom Anderson and Mike Dahlin. You can find this in the bookstore or on Amazon or you can buy the ebook version which is split into volumes one, two, three, and four.

This course also has a significant networking portion. There is no required textbook but students often ask for a resource recommendation. We recommend Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by Kurose and Ross. In an effort to create a cost-effective option for this second textbook, we have created a collection of the first 5 chapters of the 6th edition for you to purchase electronally if you wish.
(Click on the link above to purchase access to the course materials. If you already have a Pearson user account, sign-in with your username/password; if you do not, you will be asked to create a Pearson account prior to purchasing the course materials.)