Editing CS 3210

== Overview ==
CS 3210 is a 3 credit hour class taken by Systems and Architecture threads (CS/CompE). It has no lab or recitation period.

This class is heavily project-based.

==== Topics List ====
This class teaches some Operating Systems (OS) concepts such as:

# Bootloading (how the processor wakes up and loads the OS kernel)
# Memory Paging
# Process Scheduling
# File systems
# Networking Concepts

==== How it Fits into the Curriculum ====
CS 3210 is a required class for Systems and Architecture Threads (both CS and CompE), and is generally taken in your third or fourth year. The class is only a prerequisite for Advanced Operating Systems ([[CS 4210]]/[[CS 6210]]) but is a gateway course to more advanced graduate level OS courses.

== Current Registration Info ==
CS 3210 is a regular class. This means there is no recitation or lab to register for. Just register for a lecture section.

=== Prerequisites ===
At least one of the following:

* C or higher in CS 2200
* C or higher in ECE 3057 (replaced with ECE 3058 in Fall 2021)
* C or higher in ECE 3058

=== Majors that Require this Class ===

* Computer Science (Systems and Architecture Threads)
* Computer Engineering (Systems and Architecture Threads)

== Past Semesters ==

=== Fall 2020 ===
4 projects, 1 midterm, 1 final

Projects were on [https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2020/xv6.html Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system], with much of the class material from the associated open-source textbook.

Xv6 is a simple teaching operating system with many features missing. In the class projects, you implement some of those missing features using the C programming language.<blockquote>
"Overall, the projects were time-consuming but fair. The material is really interesting, and detailed project instructions along with a concise textbook and helpful lectures/office hours made those projects doable." - Alexp</blockquote>

=== Spring 2020 "Rust-mester" ===
Apparently, the project was very difficult. It involved writing an OS kernel from scratch using the Rust programming languages and testing it on a Raspberry Pi.

[https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/index.html Publicly available course webpage]