415.340 :
Operating systems.

Welcome to 340 !

Your two lecturers for this course are :

• Alan Creak, the course supervisor, who lectures for the first part of the course; tell Alan if you have any problems with his part of the course or the general course organisation, etc.; and
• Robert Sheehan, the other one, who lectures for the second part of the course; tell Robert if you have any problems with his part of the course, or with Alan.

City and Tamaki

415.340 comes in two varieties :

• 415340SC, with lectures at 2 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in BLT100; and
• 415340ST, with lectures at 11.30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in 721.201

We try to make as little distinction as we can between the course as it runs at the two campi; you get the same lectures ( as near as we can manage ), the same lecturers ( a bit worn in the city lectures, because that's the second delivery, but by the same token a bit more practised ), the same documentation, tests, assignments, and examination.

You don't get quite the same access to the lecturers, because we both live in the city campus and have other duties there, which means we can't spend as much time at Tamaki as might be best, but we encourage you to communicate with us by e-mail as much as possible wherever you're based - it's easier in the long run.

Other topics of potential interest :

• More details of the course;
• The "official" course page ;
• The course timetable;
• The course notes;
• The assignments;
• This year's overall coursework marks;
• This year's examination and test;
• Old examinations and tests;
• A note on answering examinations;
• The Unix notes;
• The course philosophy ( for want of a better word ).

If you have any difficulties, questions, complaints, or other burdens on your mind related to the course, you are always welcome to tell Alan or Robert.

More if you want it :

From time to time, Alan, a compulsive scribbler, writes down things of interest to him - though possibly to no one else - in what he calls WORKING NOTES. Some of these are relevant to the 340 course; if you think they might be interesting, get one from the WWW site or, if all else fails, ask Alan for a copy :

• AC43 ( "Computer organisation" reorganisation revisited );
• AC75 ( Course structure );
• AC84 ( Operating systems simulator );
• AC95 ( Advanced operating systems course. )

You might like to know that working notes are not examinable.

Alan Creak and Robert Sheehan,
July, 1998.

Go to Alan;
Go to Robert;
Go to Computer Science.