Course Topics
• Operating systems principles. • Real time systems principles. • Multi-programming, multi-tasking. • Scheduling and management of processes. • Communication and synchronization. • Memory management.

Teaching format
Frontal lectures, exercises, labs

Educational objectives
Knowledge and understanding Know the fundamental principles and programming techniques of operating and real-time systems; Know the innovative aspects of the last generation of operating systems. Applying knowledge and understanding Ability to develop programs to interact with microcontrollers and the operating systems of modern computers. Making judgements Be able to work autonomously according to the own level of knowledge and understanding. Communication skills Be able to use one of the three languages English, Italian and German, and be able to use technical terms and communication appropriately. Ability to learn Have developed learning capabilities to pursue further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

Additional educational objectives and learning outcomes
Students gain an understanding of the theoretical and practical concepts of operating systems with a focus on the algorithmic aspects orchestrating the underlying hardware structure of a computer and the basic parallel programming techniques. After this course the students are able to understand the main principles for designing an OS, operate on an OS through a terminal, and develop code with elements of parallelism.

Assessment
Written exam. The mark for each part of the exam is 18-30, or insufficient. The written exam comprises verification questions and open questions to test knowledge application skills on the arguments discussed during the course. In case of doubts on the final mark. the lecturer reserves the right to ask for an additional oral examination. The oral exam comprises verification questions and open questions to test knowledge application skills. It can increase or decrease the mark obtained in the written exam.

Evaluation criteria
The final mark is computed in proportion of the correct answers given in the written exam. The optional oral exam can increase or decrease the mark obtained in the written exam. Relevant for the oral exam: clarity of answers, ability to recall principles and methods, and deep understanding about the course topics presented in the lectures. Non-attending students have the same evaluation criteria and requirements for passing the exam as attending students.

Required readings

Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin, G. Gagne, Operating Systems Concepts

Supplementary readings

Web resources provided by the lecturer during the lectures

Further information
Software used: C compiler and debugger, Bash shell, GNU/Linux