This course aims to explain structure and functions of an operating system.
It is mandatory to fulfill Ordinadors and Estructura d’Ordinadors courses before attending Operating Systems lectures.

At the end of the course, attendees should be able to explain how an OS manage main abstractions (such as processes, address spaces and files) , compare and contrast many CPU efficiency algorithms, and distinguish paged and segmented virtual memory.

The course will combine lecture courses with laboratory courses. Lecture courses will present periodical group comprehension exercises to help further understanding of theorical concepts. Labs course are designed to illustrate key operating system aspects by concrete example, using Linux OS and C programming.

Students will have to take three partial examinations (called CP), that will account for 40% of the final grade and covers the following learning capacity:
SO-1 Student knows the different parts of an operating system and how they interact between them.

Students will deliver three assignments (called TV) throughout the course, that will account for 40% of the final grade and covers the following learning capacity:
SO-2 Student distinguishes the possibilities offered by an operating system for solving problems in the management of processes, files, memory and communication.


Finally, the challenger project covers 20% of the final grade and covers the following learning capacity: SO-3 Proposes solutions to problems that use native operating system resources.


Students will deliver three assignments (called TV) throughout the course, taht will account for 40% of the final grade and covers the following learning capacity:
SO-2 Student distinguishes the possibilities offered by an operating system for solving problems in the management of processes, files, memory and communication.


Finally the challengerm project covers 20% of the final grade and covers the following learning capacity: SO-3 Proposes solutions to problems that use native operating system resources.

There’s an option to improve the QP grade by taking a final examination. If your final examination grade is better than the mean of the three partial examinations, the final examination grade is taking into account instead of QP, following the same formulae as above.

“Modern operative systems”, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Pearson Educación 2009, ISBN 978-607-442-046-3