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Video Lecture (required)
In the first video Dr. Mayfield will review what an operating system does and explain how multiple programs run at the same time. The second video is about the booting process and virtual memory. All of these features are provided by the operating system kernel.
Questions & Exercises
Some of these questions will be on the next quiz. Remember the answers are in the back of the book.
- Sec 3.1 : 2, 4
- Sec 3.2 : 1, 2
- Sec 3.3 : 1, 3
Additional Clips (recommended)
As a CS student, you will be using the Linux operating system. But perhaps you didn't realize that you've been using Linux for years. Check out this short clip from the Linux Foundation to see why.
Here's a recent video about Computer Science from the Domain of Science YouTube channel by Dominic Walliman. He does a great job explaining the different sub-fields, many of which we will study in this course.