John Sellens john.sellens@senecapolytechnic.ca

UNX511 Section NSC Schedule

Classes are

• Tuesdays A3512 3:20pm to 5:05pm
• Fridays online via zoom, 2:25pm to 4:10pm - there will be a link in our course section in blackboard.

Quizzes and Labs will appear in the course page at https://learn.senecapolytechnic.ca/.

Specific Days

• Sept 2 - Week 1 Class 1 - Introduction, virtual machine creation - w1l1.html


• Sept 5 - Week 1 Class 2 - System Calls, Errors, and the /proc Filesystem - w1l2.html


• September 9 - Week 2 Class 1 - Libraries, Make and Makefiles - w2l1.html
• September 12 - Week 2 Class 2 - review and question opportunity - w2l2.html


• September 16 - Week 3 Class 1 - File I/O and IOCTLs - w3l1.html
• September 19 - Week 3 Class 2 - Debugging and gdb - w3l2.html
• September 21 - Lab 2 due
• September 22 - Quiz 2 due


• September 23 - Week 4 Class 1 - Advanced File I/O - w4l1.html
• September 26 - Week 4 Class 2 - Socket Files and IOCTL's, More Debugging - w4l2.html


• September 28 - Lab 3 due
• September 29 - Quiz 3 due


• September 30 - Week 5 Class 1 - Simple Device Driver - w5l1.html


• October 5 - Lab 4 due
• October 6 - Quiz 4 due


• October 7 - Week 6 Class 1 - Processes and Signals - w6l1.html
• October 10 - Week 6 Class 2 - Signals and Signal Handling - w6l2.html


• October 12 - Lab 5 due - week 5 - device drivers
• October 13 - Quiz 5 due - week 6 - signals
• October 14 - Week 7 Class 1 - Review class for midterm
• October 17 - midterm test
• October 19 - Lab 5b due - week 6 - signals


• October 20 - October 24 - Seneca study week - no classes


• October 28 - Week 8 Class 1 - Make and Sockets - w8l1.html
• November 3 - Quiz 6 due - week 8 - sockets


• November 4 - Week 9 Class 1 - Pipes and FIFOs - w9l1.html
• November 7 - Lab 6 due - week 4-6 - Server/Client
• November 10 - Quiz 7 due - week 9 - pipes and FIFOs


• November 11 - Week 10 Class 1 - Message Queues - w10l1.html
• November 14 - Lab 7 due - Week 9 - Pipes Between Processes
• November 17 - Quiz 8 due - week 10 - message queues


• November 18 - Week 11 Class 1 - Threads and Mutexes - w11l1.html
• November 21 - Lab 8 due - Week 10 - Client/Server with Messaging
• November 24 - Quiz 9 due - week 11 - threads


• November 25 - Week 12 Class 1 - POSIX Semaphores - w12l1.html
• December 1 - Quiz 10 due - week 12 - semaphores


• December 2 - Week 13 Class 1 - System V Shared Memory - w13l1.html
• December 3 - Assignment 1 due
• December 5 - Lab 10 due - Week 12/13 - Semephores with Shared Memory
• December 7 - Assignment 2/3 due
• December 8 - Quiz 11 due - week 13 - shared memory


• December 9 - Week 14 Class 1 - Review class for final
• December 12 - Final test due

UNX511 NSC Class Links

• UNX511 NSC Assignments
• UNX511 NSC Labs and How to Submit Them
• UNX511 NSC Quizzes
• UNX511 NSC Main Page

References

• See UNX511 References

Tools

• See UNX511 Tools

Links

• UNX511 section NSC class schedule
• All UNX511 section NSC class notes
• UNX511 samples at github https://github.com/jsellens/unx511_samples
• Some UNX511 section NSC class samples - code, etc

• UNX511 Course Outline Fall 2025 -- https://www.senecapolytechnic.ca/ssos/findOutline.do?schoolCode=SICT&termCode=20253&subjectCode=UNX511
• UNX511 Course / Section Syllabus Summer 2025 https://syl.senecapolytechnic.ca/syllabi/2025-summer/unx511-nsb-8216/index.html
• learn.senecapolytechnic.ca - Blackboard
• Seneca Student VPN access information: https://students.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/186/it-services/wiki/view/1024/vpn
• SCPA student intranet - google "SCPA student seneca" or: https://students.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/281/school-of-computer-programming-analysis/home