COSC 3360 - 17651 - Operating Systems
Undergraduate course, University of Houston, Computer Science Department, 2026
*Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 to 2:30 PM.* **LEARNING OBJECTIVES** At the end of this course, the student should be able to: - Describe the key functions of an operating system and its relationship with the components of a computer system. - Understand the process management aspects of the operating system: control and description of processes, threads, interprocess communication, and concurrency mechanisms. - Explain how operating systems schedule processes and threads. - Understand the different memory management solutions provided by the operating system. - Understand the I/O management tools and file system design aspects and implementation.