Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Operating Systems (17.E225)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Applied Computer Science and Informatics

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Computing and Control Engineering (Godina: 2, Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Power Software Engineering (Godina: 2, Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Information Engineering (Godina: 2, Summer)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Applied Computer Science and Informatics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	8

Educational goal:

Students learn about principles of operating systems, their organization, structure and implementation. They acquire beginner’s level knowledge of concurrent programming.

Educational outcome:

Knowledge of operating systems principles, their organization, structure and implementation. Beginner’s level knowledge of concurrent programming.

Course content:

Notion of operating system. Concurrency and synchronization (concurrent processes and threads, cooperation and synchronization of processes and threads, shared variables, message passing, mutual exclusion, condition synchronization, means of process and thread cooperation and synchronization, deadlock, concurrent programming languages and their implementation, typical problems of concurrent programming, producers and consumers, philosophers, readers and writers, disk management, …) Operating system tasks (command interpretation, process management, data management, main memory management, management of devices, process scheduling). Operating system interface (scripts and system calls), Security and protection, Types of operating systems (operating systems of shared and real time, distributed operating systems), Parallel programming.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, Computer practice. Consultations. The examination prerequisites consists of four tests and one complex exercise. The final examination test the theoretical part of the course material. The number of points for obtaining a signature is 30.