Introduction to Operating Systems
Earn college credit with Introduction to Operating Systems—a self-paced online course covering processes, threads, scheduling, memory management, file systems, and concurrency fundamentals. Complete short lessons, quizzes, and assignments on your schedule, then finish with a proctored final exam. Ideal for CS majors and systems prerequisites, with transcript options.
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Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to: define and explain the core functions of operating systems including security, resource management, and communication facilitation; describe how operating systems manage hardware and software resources efficiently; classify different operating system categories and their features; identify and explore graphical user interfaces, command line interfaces, batch files, and the boot process; apply knowledge in managing processes, threads, and multitasking; analyze different job scheduling algorithms, memory management techniques, and memory allocation schemes including virtual and cache memory; evaluate the effectiveness of various peripheral devices, data storage technologies, and file systems; discuss networking concepts and computer security risks along with mitigation strategies; and create and use virtualization environments by installing VirtualBox and Linux; explore the functionalities of the Java Virtual Machine.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to: define and explain the core functions of operating systems including security, resource management, and communication facilitation; describe how operating systems manage hardware and software resources efficiently; classify different operating system categories and their features; identify and explore graphical user interfaces, command line interfaces, batch files, and the boot process; apply knowledge in managing processes, threads, and multitasking; analyze different job scheduling algorithms, memory management techniques, and memory allocation schemes including virtual and cache memory; evaluate the effectiveness of various peripheral devices, data storage technologies, and file systems; discuss networking concepts and computer security risks along with mitigation strategies; and create and use virtualization environments by installing VirtualBox and Linux; explore the functionalities of the Java Virtual Machine.
Major Course Topics
Major topics include fundamentals of operating systems; processes, threads, and concurrency in operating systems; basic memory management; Input/Output and storage management; file management in operating systems; networking in operating systems; computer security risks and policies; and virtual machines.