Operating Systems

Course Objectives

The purpose of this course is to provide students basic knowledge of operating systems, difference between the kernel and user modes, concepts of application program interfaces, methods and implementations of interrupts. Students are introduced to the schedulers, policies, processes, threads, memory management, virtual memory, protection, access control, and authentication. Students learn system calls in different popular operating systems used in the industry.

Course Contents

1.Introduction to Operating Systems

2.Operating System Design and Implementations

3.Proccesses

4.Threads

5.Proccess Synchronizations

6.Deadlocks

7.CPU Scheduling

Lecture Slides

Course's main textbook

Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne

Assessment and Grading

Course assessment includes quizzes that will be offered through the course, homework assignments, and two exams - midterm and final.

The final exam is not cumulative. You final grade has four components: class attendance, assignments, quizzes, midterm exam grade, and final exam grade.

1.Class attendance 10%

2.Assignments 30%

3.Midterm Exam 20%

4. Final exam 40%