SWEN-342 Schedule

Syllabus

Class Schedule - Spring 2025 term 2245

Week	Topics	Activities	Due	Reading / Resources
1 - Jan 16	Concurrency Introduction Java Thread Review POJC - Plain Old Java Concurrency	Activity #1 - Thread Intro Submit in ThreadIntroduction directory in GitLab	Activity #1 Due : 1/26	Ch 1-2 in JCIP and Ch 1-2 in PCJVM
2 - Jan 23	Deadlock	Activity #2 - The Woolies Submit to GitLab in activity_2, activity_3, and activity_4 (parts 1, 2, 3) Activity #5 - Dining Philosophers in activity_5	See Discord for Due Dates	Ch 3-4 in JCIP and Ch 3 in PCJVM
3 - Jan 30	Thread Safe Objects	Activity #6 - Bankers Algorithm Submit to activity_6	See Discord for dates	Ch 5-6, 8 in JCIP
4 - Feb 6	Introduction to Posix	Activity #7: creating threads pthreads activity" Submit to activity_7		Read Posix 13.1 through 13.1.1.2 Thread Creation
Weeks 5 & 6	complete pthreads activity	Activity #6 Timers on Linux due 3/5 Timers on Linux		Review: Create Timer on Linux Reference and overview: Posix API doc
Weeks 7 & 8		Final project option: Bank Simulator Project Bank Simulator Report Bank Simulator Demo Design Doc Example		Books: oreilly login in (use RIT email) The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk Programming with POSIX Threads by David R. Butenhof
Weeks 9 & 10	OS Concepts
Weeks 11, 12	Networking Principles	Final project -- see description under projects below. Wireshark Wireshark Essential Training	Final project Architecture and top level Design due April 15th in Assignment Folder. Overview with top level architecture block diagram. Include lower level block diagram(s) if needed. Show data and control flow. List and describe how you will use your technology stack including concurrency and/or distributed system features. Class diagrams are not required. Final project code and report with updated Architecture and Design due 2 calendar days before your final review appointment. Demo and discussion Finals Week. Final Review Signup Sheet Final Project Report
Weeks 13, 14	Distributed OS Data Hub Guide Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)		Sockets Activity Due April 29th

Exams

One take-home exam start April 7th Due April 10th
Final Exam -- 15 minute project demo and discussion during Finals week. Demo and discussion can be in-person or on Zoom.

Projects

Final Project overview:
- Must demonstrate multiple concurrency or distributed system topics.
- Create a top-level project proposal for instructor approval (about 200 to 400 words). This includes what platform, language, any hardware, and specific system topics like queues, inter-process communication like sockets, mutexes, semaphores, timers, and scheduling.
- Project can run on Windows, Mac OS, any Linux, or RTOS on microcontrollers.
- A variety of sensors and devices are available (ultrasonic sensors, servo motors with breadboards and components.
- Let me know if there is some device that you want to use. I may be able to get the department to purchase it.
- Include a 1 page final project report.
L476 Discovery Board (free)
Nucleo-L476RG (used in SWEN 340 - about $18)
P-Nucleo-WB55 (bluetooth support -- about $45)
freeRTOS Developer Docs

Reading Reference Key

ENTER = Enterprise Software Architecture & Design, Dominic Duggan, 2012 (Wiley Books on-line via Wallace Library)
GUIDE = Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems, Kenneth Birman, 2012 (Springer Books on-line via Wallace Library)
JCIP = Java Concurrency in Practice, Brian Goetz, et. al., Addison-Wesley, 2006
PCJVM = Programming Concurrency on the JVM, Venkat Subramaniam, Pragmatic Programmers, 2011
POSA = Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture – Volume 4, A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing, Schmidt, Buschmann & Henney (on Books 24x7)
SCM= Seven Concurrencty Models in Seven Weeks - When Threads Unravel, Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Programmers, 2014

Resources

Accessing nitron

Creating setting up SSH keys for nitron: Nitron setup Part 1 and Part 2
Now copy the ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 file (your private key) to your laptop (sftp is one way). Add this to your keychain. In Windows you can use PuTTY which has a putty agent that provides the private key when using ssh.
On macOS you can add this private key to your keychain: add to keychain
Mounting the "nitron" network drive on your laptop: on nitron do a pwd and append that path to this path: smb://zadash.se.rit.edu/
To mount you must be either on the RIT network or first connect using the RIT VPN.

Code listings from examples in "Java Concurrency in Practice" -http://jcip.net.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/listings.html
Java Doc: java.util.concurrent
Java Doc: java.util.collections
Concurrent Quicksort (with Callable)
Akka : akka.io
Actors in Scala (Bonus Online Chapter from "Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks" by Paul Butcher)
Akka environment set-up
Producer-Consumer using Actors
Actor Design Template
Akka presentation (video) by Jonas Boner - Akka Fault Tolerance at 45 minute mark. Jonas Boner is the creator of the Akka Project.

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Class Schedule - Spring 2025 term 2245

Exams

Projects

Reading Reference Key

Resources