Syllabus: CSCI 461 - Operating Systems

Course Description:

Theory of operating systems, which include process management, CPU scheduling, deadlock handling, file systems, and memory management.

Prerequisites:

Successfully completed or concurrent enrollment in CS 357, EET 340.

Textbook:

• Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 9th Edition, ISBN 9780137516742.

Course Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate understanding of OS control and management of hardware resources,
• Demonstrate understanding of OS management and execution of processes,
• Analysis and implement processes and threads,
• Demonstrate competence in explaining concurrency issues and their solutions,
• and Demonstrate understanding of OS control and management of virtual memory.

Course Topics:

• Computer and Operating System Overview
• Processes, Inter-process Communication
• Threads
• Concurrency: Process Synchronization, Semaphore, Critical Section
• Concurrency: Deadlock
• Memory Management
• Virtual Memory
• CPU Scheduling: Uniprocessor
• File Management

Course Grading

Attendance	5%
Reading Homework	10%
Programming Assignments	25%
Group Project	25%
Exams	20%