COSC 3360 - Operating Systems
Undergraduate course, University of Houston, Computer Science Department, 2024
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:30 AM to 1 PM.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course, the student should be able to:
- Describe the key functions of an operating system and its relationship with the components of a computer system.
- Understand the process management aspects of the operating system: control and description of processes, threads, interprocess communication, and concurrency mechanisms.
- Explain how operating systems schedule processes and threads.
- Understand the different memory management solutions provided by the operating system.
- Understand the I/O management tools and file system design aspects and implementation.