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Computer science fundamentals

Operating Systems

The planned outline of 15 modules. Lessons are written, run and reviewed before they are published.

Coming soon 15 modules

Coming soon. This track is being written. Below is its planned outline: a lesson appears here once its examples have been run and its technical review is signed off.

Planned outline

  1. Module 1

    Foundations: what an operating system does

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  2. Module 2

    Processes: creation, life cycle, signals and IPC

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  3. Module 3

    Threads and concurrency models

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  4. Module 4

    CPU scheduling

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  5. Module 5

    Synchronisation: races, locks, semaphores and monitors

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  6. Module 6

    Deadlocks

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  7. Module 7

    Memory management: addresses, segmentation and paging

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  8. Module 8

    Virtual memory and page replacement

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  9. Module 9

    I/O systems, disks and disk scheduling

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  10. Module 10

    File systems

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  11. Module 11

    Protection and security

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  12. Module 12

    Virtualization, namespaces and cgroups

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  13. Module 13

    Inside Linux: kernel, tracing and eBPF

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  14. Module 14

    Windows, macOS, mobile and embedded systems

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  15. Module 15

    GATE and interview practice

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