This repository holds a number of projects that can be used in an operating systems class aimed at upper-level undergraduates and (in some cases) beginning graduate students. They are based on years of teaching such a course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Also (increasingly) available are some tests to see if your code works; eventually
every project will have a set of tests available. The testing framework that is
currently available is found here.
A specific testing script, found in each project directory, can be used to run
the tests against your code. For example, in the initial utilities project, the
relatively simple wcat program that you create can be tested by running the
test-wcat.sh script.
These projects are meant to get you warmed up with programming in the C/UNIX environment. None are meant to be particularly hard, but should be enough so that you can get more comfortable programming.
Realize the best thing you can do to learn to program in any environment is to program a lot. These small projects are only the beginning of that journey; you'll have to do more on your own to truly become proficient.
- Unix Utilities (cat, grep, zip/unzip)
- Sort (text-based)
- Sort (binary)
- Reverse (very simple reverse program)
- Memory Allocator
- Web Server
- Parallel Zip
- MapReduce
- Web Crawler
These projects all are to be done inside the xv6 kernel developed at MIT. Unlike the C/Linux projects, these give you direct experience inside a real, working operating system (albeit a simple one).