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| − | Course development can parallel learning objectives and topics associated with many | + | Course development can parallel learning objectives and topics associated with many Operating Systems courses. [[Student Built Xinu#References|[1]]] |
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== Potential Course Structure == | == Potential Course Structure == | ||
| − | A course where having students integrate advanced operating systems features and develop applications for a their own or a provided Xinu operating system can be outlined to one similar to the one below | + | A course where having students integrate advanced operating systems features and develop applications for a their own or a provided Xinu operating system can be outlined to one similar to the one below. The example course layout has the listed applied assignments as well as several written assignments of problems developed with the textbook in mind or taken from the textbook. |
===== Course Outline ===== | ===== Course Outline ===== | ||
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| 02 || || || C (functions, control flow) and Processes || | | 02 || || || C (functions, control flow) and Processes || | ||
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| − | | 03 || || || C (pointers, arrays, structs) and Threads || || || || | + | | 03 || || || C (pointers, arrays, structs) and Threads || || || || |
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| − | | 04 || || || CPU Scheduling || || || || [[Assignment: Extending Xinu # | + | | 04 || || || CPU Scheduling || || || || [[Assignment: Extending Xinu #2|Extending Xinu #2]] |
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| 05 || || || CPU Scheduling || | | 05 || || || CPU Scheduling || | ||
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| − | | 06 || || || Process Synchronization || || || || | + | | 06 || || || Process Synchronization || || || || |
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| − | | 07 || || || Deadlocks || || || || | + | | 07 || || || Deadlocks || || || || |
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| − | | 08 || || || Main Memory and Virtual Memory || | + | | 08 || || || Main Memory and Virtual Memory || || || || [[Assignment: Extending Xinu #5|Extending Xinu #3]] |
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| − | | 09 || || || File System Interface || || || || | + | | 09 || || || File System Interface || || || || |
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| 10 || || || File System Implementation || | | 10 || || || File System Implementation || | ||
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| − | | 11 || || || Mass-Storage Structure || || || || | + | | 11 || || || Mass-Storage Structure || || || || |
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| − | | 12 || || || I/O Systems || || || || [[Assignment: Extending Xinu # | + | | 12 || || || I/O Systems || || || || [[Assignment: Extending Xinu #7|Extending Xinu #4]] |
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| − | | 13 || || || Protection, Security and Distributed System Structures || || || || | + | | 13 || || || Protection, Security and Distributed System Structures || || || || |
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| 14 || || || Distributed System Structures || | | 14 || || || Distributed System Structures || | ||
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| − | | 15 || || || Distributed File Systems || || || || | + | | 15 || || || Distributed File Systems || || || || |
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===== Books ===== | ===== Books ===== | ||
* There are no suggested books for this course outline. | * There are no suggested books for this course outline. | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
[1] Course topics and learning objectives have been adapted from the ACM's [http://www.acm.org/education/education/education/curric_vols/cc2001.pdf Computing Curricula 2001 Computer Science]. | [1] Course topics and learning objectives have been adapted from the ACM's [http://www.acm.org/education/education/education/curric_vols/cc2001.pdf Computing Curricula 2001 Computer Science]. | ||
Latest revision as of 19:34, 27 July 2010
Contents
Overview
Having students integrate advanced operating systems features and develop applications for a their own or a provided Xinu operating system is one of the potential tracks presented for a professor that is Teaching With Xinu.
Students will learn to extend an operating system by adding kernel level and user level applications. Given a functional Embedded Xinu operating system the students will have to understand and manipulate existing operating system code to create additional operating system features. To add more applications to the operating system students will have to understand the interactions between the program in design and the operating system's device and kernel interaction calls. Programming for embedded devices allows students to engage in development on small resource constrained environments. Through extending the existing Embedded Xinu operating system a student learns to use and understand code not written by the student and develops advanced operating system concepts.
Course Outcomes
Course development can parallel learning objectives and topics associated with many Operating Systems courses. [1]
Topics
- Overview of operating systems
- Operating system principles
- Concurrency
- Scheduling and dispatch
- Memory management
- Device management
- Security and protection
- File systems
- Evaluating system performance
Learning Objectives
- Intimate knowledge of embedded devices.
- Overview of the general and specific purpose of an operating system.
- Understanding concurrency and state flow diagrams.
- Understanding deadlock and starvation.
- Understanding the use of memory and virtual memory.
- Characteristics of serial and parallel devices.
Potential Course Structure
A course where having students integrate advanced operating systems features and develop applications for a their own or a provided Xinu operating system can be outlined to one similar to the one below. The example course layout has the listed applied assignments as well as several written assignments of problems developed with the textbook in mind or taken from the textbook.
Course Outline
| Week | Topics | Assignments | |||||
| 01 | C (basics) and OS Structures, Processes | Extending Xinu #1 | |||||
| 02 | C (functions, control flow) and Processes | ||||||
| 03 | C (pointers, arrays, structs) and Threads | ||||||
| 04 | CPU Scheduling | Extending Xinu #2 | |||||
| 05 | CPU Scheduling | ||||||
| 06 | Process Synchronization | ||||||
| 07 | Deadlocks | ||||||
| 08 | Main Memory and Virtual Memory | Extending Xinu #3 | |||||
| 09 | File System Interface | ||||||
| 10 | File System Implementation | ||||||
| 11 | Mass-Storage Structure | ||||||
| 12 | I/O Systems | Extending Xinu #4 | |||||
| 13 | Protection, Security and Distributed System Structures | ||||||
| 14 | Distributed System Structures | ||||||
| 15 | Distributed File Systems |
Books
- There are no suggested books for this course outline.
References
[1] Course topics and learning objectives have been adapted from the ACM's Computing Curricula 2001 Computer Science.
This work funded in part by NSF grant DUE-CCLI-0737476.
