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INFO1112: Computing 1B OS & Network Platforms (2020 - Semester 2)
| Unit: | INFO1112: Computing 1B OS & Network Platforms (6 CP) |
| Mode: | Normal-Day |
| On Offer: | Yes |
| Level: | Junior |
| Faculty/School: | School of Computer Science |
| Unit Coordinator/s: |
Professor Kay, Judy
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| Session options: | Semester 2 |
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| Campus: | Camperdown/Darlington |
| Pre-Requisites: | None. |
| Co-Requisites: | ELEC1601 AND (INFO1110 OR INFO1910 OR INFO1103 OR INFO1113). For most students, INFO1110 should have already been passed in semester 1. |
| Brief Handbook Description: | The unit introduces principles and concepts of modern computer systems, including mobile computers and the Internet, to provide students with fundamental knowledge of the environments in which modern, networked applications operate. Students will have basic knowledge to understand how computers work and are aware of principles and concepts they are likely to encounter in their career. The material spans the low level (bits) to the high level (applications) concepts. The unit covers: *Principles of operating systems and the way applications interact with the OS, including operating systems for mobile devices *Principles of computer networking *Writing applications that use facilities of the OS and networking |
| Assumed Knowledge: | A basic knowledge of Python is assumed. |
| Lecturer/s: |
Associate Professor Kummerfeld, Bob
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| Timetable: | INFO1112 Timetable | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning outcomes are the key abilities and knowledge that will be assessed in this unit. They are listed according to the course goal supported by each. See Assessment Tab for details how each outcome is assessed.
(7) Project and Team Skills (Level 1)
1. Manage their time and activities in a multi-week individual project
(6) Communication and Inquiry/ Research (Level 2)
2. Produce clear written report
3. Able to extend their knowledge, acquire new knowledge, and connect to conceptual frameworks in operating systems and networks and the impact on application development, without explicit instruction
(2) Engineering/ IT Specialisation (Level 2)
4. Understand basic functions that an operating system performs, and know the main subcomponents of the OS
5. Understand basic functions that networking performs, and know the most important layers/subcomponents in networking
6. Able to use essential system tools to monitor OS and network status
7. Understand additional concepts relevant for OS for server and for handhelds, including virtualization and containers
8. Experience with a number of different operating systems
9. Able to identify the interfaces at which users/applications can interact with the OS and the network, and identify where the OS function or network communication needs to be protected against unauthorized access
10. Understand major ideas used in internal implementation of OS and networks, such as caching, process structures, memory mapping, layering, reliable/unreliable transport, multiplexing, packet switching
11. Aware of some key algorithmic approaches that can be used in some subcomponents of OS and networking (eg routing, scheduling); also aware of alternative implementations in some cases, and of the tradeoffs involved
12. Able to write basic application functionality to interact with the operating system and the network, e.g. by opening and closing files, writing to disk, and sending application-layer data to remote applications
13. Aware of several major challenges that arise in distributed systems and mobile applications, e.g. failure tolerance and latency tolerance
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| Assessment Description: |
In the project, students must write some application code that accesses system facilities, and obtain some relevant, system-level measurements. Weekly quizzes in lab will provide on-going checks that students are keeping up with the conceptual and factual content that is being delivered in lectures; the score will be based on the best 10 quiz marks. |
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| Policies & Procedures: | IMPORTANT: School policy relating to Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism. In assessing a piece of submitted work, the School of Computer Science may reproduce it entirely, may provide a copy to another member of faculty, and/or to an external plagiarism checking service or in-house computer program and may also maintain a copy of the assignment for future checking purposes and/or allow an external service to do so. Other policies See the policies page of the faculty website at http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/student-policies/ for information regarding university policies and local provisions and procedures within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies. |
| Recommended Reference/s: |
Note: References are provided for guidance purposes only. Students are advised to consult these books in the university library. Purchase is not required.
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Note that the "Weeks" referred to in this Schedule are those of the official university semester calendar https://web.timetable.usyd.edu.au/calendar.jsp
| Week | Description |
| Week 1 | Operating systems: Function, purpose, need, examples (Windows, Linux, Android, embedded). |
| Week 2 | Main subcomponents of OS. Concepts: Resource allocation, scheduling. |
| Week 3 | Kernel space, user space. Privileges. System calls. Observing status and measuring performance. |
| Week 4 | Processes and threads (examples mapping to Windows, Linux); Memory management (Stack. Heap); |
| Week 5 | OS for servers, virtualization |
| Week 6 | Networks. Layering principle and protocols. |
| Week 7 | Internetworking: TCP/IP. |
| Week 8 | Application Layer protocols and Middleware. |
| Week 9 | Caching: examples in different settings (both network and OS) |
| Assessment Due: Assignment 1 | |
| Assessment Due: Mid-semester Quiz | |
| Week 10 | Extensions and limitations in modern OS for handhelds (eg capabilities) and convergence of mobile and desktop operating systems. |
| Week 11 | Challenges of distributed systems; overview of mobile applications and technologies. |
| Week 12 | (spare for public holiday or future shorter semesters) |
| Week 13 | Applying OS and network knowledge to mobile system development; Review of semester and exam. |
| Assessment Due: Assignment 2 | |
| Exam Period | Assessment Due: Final exam |
Course Relations
The following is a list of courses which have added this Unit to their structure.
Course Goals
This unit contributes to the achievement of the following course goals:
| Attribute | Practiced | Assessed |
| (7) Project and Team Skills (Level 1) | No | 4% |
| (6) Communication and Inquiry/ Research (Level 2) | No | 6% |
| (2) Engineering/ IT Specialisation (Level 2) | No | 90% |
These goals are selected from Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 which defines overall goals for courses where this unit is primarily offered. See Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 for details of the attributes and levels to be developed in the course as a whole. Percentage figures alongside each course goal provide a rough indication of their relative weighting in assessment for this unit. Note that not all goals are necessarily part of assessment. Some may be more about practice activity. See Learning outcomes for details of what is assessed in relation to each goal and Assessment for details of how the outcome is assessed. See Attributes for details of practice provided for each goal.
