Overview
Lecturer
Arpad Incze
Seminar tutor
Arpad Incze
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Computer Science
Field of study
Computer Science (in English)
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification,Project-work, computer-based activities, laboratory activities. Based on CISCO NDG Linux unhatched module
Entry requirements
Computer Systems Architecture
Aims
Cognitive competences: acquiring fundamental knowledge regarding the main concepts of operating systems in general and of DOS, Windows and Linux in particular as well as acquiring the abilities to use these systems
Technical / professional competences: the correct use of operating systems, knowledge of specific instructions and features, using assembly language to call SO functions.
Afective competencies: developing the capacity to understand the operating systems currently used in various application-settings.
Course contents
Operating systems
Introduction
Functions
Components
PC operating systems
Definitions, context, history
Overview of operating systems
Types of Operating Systems
UNIX, Linux, OS X, Windows
Responsibilities and functionalities
Execution environments. Virtualization
Tools used for creating OS
Monoprogramming
Multiprogramming (Multitasking)
The Spooling System
The Time-Sharing System
Multiprocessing
Hard disk and memory management
3. File systems
Definitions. Characteristics
Storage media. Types of file systems
Hierarchical organization. File types.
Device abstraction
Permissions and ownership
File system layout. File attributes
4. Processes
Concepts
Processes. Process states. Scheduling
Process groups. Process attributes. Inheritance
5 Linux operating system
The Linux environment
Installation and configuration
File access File management
Linux operating system
Users and rights. Authentication and authorization.
User spaces
Users, administrators and power users
User interfaces
The command-line interface
Purpose and benefits
The UNIX/LINUX command line
Shell scripting. Regular expressions
The WINDOWS operating system
Particularities
Calling system functions
File management
User management
Services
Networking in windows
The Windows command line
Hardware and software diagnostics tools
Threads. Concepts. Multithreading
Learning outcomes
The „Operating Systems” course allows students to understand the base concepts regarding the different Operating Systems used on various computer system architectures.
The course has two main objectives:
It offers the theoretical foundation for the understanding of the base concepts regarding Operating Systems and their functioning.
The laboratory activities aim at developing abilities in accessing hardware and software resources of a computer system.
CISCO NDG certificate
Assessment
Continuous assessment Laboratory activities 50% Final evaluation Written paper 50%
Recommended reading
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Prentice Hall, 2007
Running Linux (5th Edition)
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Matt Welsh
O'Reilly,, 2005
Operating systems
JOLDES, Remus
Didactica, 2013