Computer Science
COMPSCI 215 Semester 1, City Campus
COMPSCI 101 and 105. Students are strongly encouraged to enrol in COMPSCI 210 before or concurrently with COMPSCI 215.
Description
Part 1: Interacting with the operating system via a command line interface. Socket programming.
Part 2: Hardware support necessary to implement a secure multi-user operating system: user/kernel mode, exceptions and interrupts, virtual memory, context switching, synchronisation, interrupt driven input/output.
Part 3: An introduction to data communications.
In order to pass the paper, you must:
- Pass the assignment work
- Pass test and exam combined.
- The pass marks in each part and in total are not going to exceed 50%. If you have not achieved 50% in the assignments you are still advised to sit the exam.
Final Exam 60%; Test 20%; Assignments (3) 20%
The course work consists of two parts: practical work and theory work.
The test will be administered in-class on Friday,
27/04/2012.
| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | |
| Assignments | 7% | 7% | 6% | 20% |
| Test (in-class) | 13.4% | 6.6% | 20% | |
| Examination | 13% | 19.7% | 27.3% | 60% |
| Total | 33.4% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 100% |
- Wed 16:00 - 17:00 ENG1439
- Thu 16:00 - 17:00 260-092
- Fri 16:00 - 17:00 MLT1
Information about what is and isn't permitted in assignments etc. can be found from Academic honesty.
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