Introduction to Operating Systems Course

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Topics Covered

This book provides a brief history of operating systems, explains System Calls, and covers the concepts of Processes and Threads, Processor Scheduling Techniques, and Concurrent processes and threads. Additionally, the book covers IPC and Synchronization, concepts of System Deadlock and strategies to prevent deadlocks, Main Memory Management, Concepts of demand paging and segmentation, I/O Management Overview, Disk Organization, and Scheduling Strategies, File and Directory Concepts, File systems, and Protection & Security in OS. The book also provides Python code to solve various problems in OS.

Features

The book’s content is written in simple, lucid English, making it easy to understand and memorize. The concepts are explained with extensive diagrams, real-life examples, and solved problems. The classical problems of operating systems and the useful algorithms are described in pseudo-code as well as code written in Python. The reader can experience the problems and their solutions in interactive ways, as the content is presented in bullet points to summarize and memorize the main concepts without any unwanted introduction. The book is written in a class notes style, providing the readers with definitions, features, examples, and diagram formats. It helps the readers to memorize the topics and apply their knowledge in the real world, particularly in writing exams, reducing the efforts significantly.

Who Should Read the Book?

The book is ideal for students of computer science, computer engineering, or software engineering, who want to learn operating system concepts rapidly, preferably within a stringent timeline; and have no time to learn from the vast textbooks available in the library. The book is also useful for those appearing for competitive exams such as GATE, who want to brush-up on the key concepts of operating systems. Freelance or professional developers who want to learn the overview of the operating system concepts like multi-programming, multi-threading, process synchronization in rapid speed also benefit from this book.

ASIN: B0BK8PMGHH
Publication date: October 23, 2022
Language: English
File size: 5547 KB
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 267 pages