CS 3600 - Operating Systems

Credits: 4 (4 + 0)

Prerequisite(s): CS 2050, CS 2400, and 4 additional credits of upper division CS courses, all with grades of “C” or better; or permission of instructor

Description: This course provides an introduction to modern computer operating systems, their use, design, development, and implementation. Topics covered include: operating system modes, structuring methods, process and thread scheduling and dispatch, concurrency, inter-process communication, memory management, file system organization (in both stand-alone and networked environments), and system security. This course will require students to write programs that implement some operating system functions.