inf012 - Operating Systems I (Complete module description)

Useful prior knowledge:
Study contents of the first year of the subject Bachelor of Computer Science or Business Informatics.

To gain knowledge of and capabilities in the design, the implementation, and the evaluation of operating systems.
Professional competence
The students:

• develop an understanding of operating systems regarding terminology, structure, functionality, conception, central challenges and solutions
• evaluate the performance of operating systems
• are aware of the implementation problems of operating systems
• realise and evaluate solutions of subproblems
• comprehend and evaluate the functional connections between application systems and hardware
• understand operating systems as a link between technical and applied computer science

Methodological competence
The students:

• transfer concepts of implementations to other contexts
• question different solutions wrt. properties

Social competence
The students:

• solve problems in small teams
• present their solutions to the members of the tutorial
• discuss their different solutions with members of the tutorial

Self-competence
The students:

• accept criticism
• question their initial solutions in the light of newly learned methods

The contents of this module are: 
1. “Operating systems'' definition and structure
2. Requirements of operation systems
3. Technical characteristics of related hardware
4. The need and implementation options of parallel processes
5. Cooperation of processes: communication and synchronisation (semaphores)
6. Memory management: virtual und non-virtual memory management
7. File management

• A. Tanenbaum (2009). Modern Operating Systems. 3rd edition, Prentice Hall
• W. Stallings (2012).Operating Systems. 7th edition, Prentice Hall

Linked to the modules:

• Operating Systems II (as a possible follow-up course)
• Distributed Operating Systems (as a possible specialization)
• Operating Systems Practicum

End of the lecture period

Written or oral exam