Basic students' education in the area of file organization, as well as physical data structures implemented at external memory devices. Geting knowledge about development and use of file systems.

The acquired knowledge is used in practice and in the Databases course, as well as in future engineering courses. After completing the course, students understand principles of file organization and data management systems.

An introduction to file organization. External memory devices and I/O subsystem. Operating system services and system calls. Access methods. Physical data structures and file systems. Methods and approaches to data organization. Pile, Sequential, Hash, Index-Sequential and Index B-tree file organization.

Teaching is performed through lessons, oral and computer exercises (in the computer classroom), as well as consultations. Through the teaching process, students are constantly motivated to an intensive discussion, problem oriented reasoning, independent study work and active participation in the whole lecturing process. The prerequisite to enter final exam is to complete all the pre-exam assignments by earning at least 30 points.