Syllabus: Operating Systems (CS395)

The following section describes the policies for the class.

• MOTIVATION: You are responsible for all material presented in class and/or in assigned readings. Contact me as soon as practicable if you have a legitimate reason for missing any work (e.g. illness or death in the family). The sooner the better! In most cases, some requirements can be modified or waived.

• GRADING POLICY:
  • There will be two in-class exams and one final exam.

  • Several homeworks will be given. Each is due at the time indicated in the assignment.

  • Instructor's discretion may be used in rare instances to raise (but not lower) a borderline final course grade. It will be used only when (in my opinion) a gross statistical aberration has occurred which is so unique and so blatantly obvious that there can be no questions regarding fairness or favoritism.

  • Grading 395: the final grade is composed as follows: 25% for each of the two in-class exams, 30% for the final exam, 20% for homeworks. NOTE: the homeworks are the key to doing well on the exams. Do not underesitmate this!