CSE 451: Operating Systems

Textbooks

Grades

We reserve the right to change this, but grades will be assigned roughly as follows: :

For the labs, you are encouraged to work in pairs; everyone needs to submit the solutions separately. For the midterm and final exam, you must work individually.

Policies

Reading

You will be given reading assignments associated with lecture and section. You should finish the reading before coming to class - we'll assume you've done this reading, and the lectures will enhance the material, rather than regurgitating it.

Late days

Unless otherwise indicated, assignments and projects are due at the start of class or section on their due date. If you hand in an assignment late, we will take off 20% for each day (or portion thereof) it is late. We will not consider granting Incompletes as grades.

Cheating vs. collaboration

Collaboration is a very good thing. On the other hand, cheating is considered a very serious offense and is vigorously prosecuted. Vigorous prosecution requires that you be advised of the cheating policy of the course before the offending act.

For this quarter, the policy is simple: don’t cheat. You know it when you’re doing it. We’ll recognize it when you do it. For example:

  • Never share code or text on the project.
  • Never use someone else’s code or text in your solutions.
  • Never consult project code or text that might be on the Internet.

On the other hand, for this class, you are strongly encouraged to:

  • Share ideas.
  • Explain your code to someone to see if they know why it doesn’t work.
  • Help someone else debug if they’ve run into a wall.

If you obtain help of any kind, always write the name(s) of your sources.

Please read CSE’s Academic Misconduct Policy.