COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OPERATING SYSTEMS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BIL 2008 OPERATING SYSTEMS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Computer Science

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CAN ATILGAN

Offered to

Computer Science

Course Objective

Students will be informed in general overview of operating systems, properties and functions of operating systems, hardware concepts in operating systems and general processing of operating systems. Main topics are processes, scheduling concepts, memory management, I/O and file systems in operating systems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Have an overview of different types of operating systems
2   Know the components of an operating system
3   Have understanding of process management
4   Have understanding of storage and file systems
5   Have ability to manage I/O operations

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to operating systems, Operating System concepts
2 System Calls, Operating System Structure
3 Processes, Threads, Interprocess communication, semaphores
4 Classical problems Dining Philosophers
5 Sleeping Barber, Readers and writers
6 Scheduling introduction
7 Scheduling algorithms
8 Midterm Exam
9 Deadlocks Modeling
10 Deadlock detection and recovery
11 Memory Management
12 Input / Output Principles, Disks, Clocks
13 File Systems
14 Operating System Design, Implementation and Performance

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Tanenbaum A. S., Modern Operating Systems, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall, 2007
Supplementary Book(s): Silberschatz, A., Galvin, P. B., Gagne, G., Operating System Concepts, Sixth edition. Addison-Wesley.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. Besides the taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned and presented in a discussion session. In some weeks of the course, results of the homework given previously are discussed.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students will come to the class in time. Attending the 70% of the classes are mandotary.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

alper.vahaplar@deu.edu.tr
murat.berberler@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 95

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.1323
LO.2212
LO.3222
LO.4212
LO.522

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