Operating Systems

Scholar Year: 2019/2020 - 1S

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability João Miguel Jones Ventura Head

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL L TC THE EL OT OT/PL TPL S Type of classes 2 2 Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Theorethical and Practical classes Totals 3 6,00 João Ventura   4,00 Prática Laboratorial Totals 1 2,00 Aníbal Ponte   6,00 João Ventura   4,00

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

To know and understand the basic abstractions and mechanisms available on an operating system.

Syllabus

Introduction to Operating Systems
Operating Systems Architectures
Processes and Threads
Process Synchronization
Process Scheduling
Deadlocks
Memory management
File Systems
IO management

Software

Linux com bibliotecas de programação em C

Keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Computer engineering

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

Students will learn skills on:
- parallel and concurrent programming
- group working
- complex problem solving

Teaching methodologies

Theoretical and Practical classes exposing introductory concepts and exercise solving. Lab classes with weekly projects related to the course contents.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

NF (>= 10) = [CT]*0.5 + [CP]*0.5
[CT] = Theoretical component (>=9.5) by tests and class attending
[CP] = Practical component (>=9.5) by projects

Assement and Attendance registers

Bibliography

Operating System Concepts (9th Edition), Abraham Silberschatz et al, 2013.
Modern Operating Systems (4th Edition), Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos, 2015.

Observations

This course requires an understanding of the C programming language.