Discovery Learning in Introductory Operating System Courses

Posted on November 10th, 2003 by Sacha Chua

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/299649.299797

Although we probably won’t have computers during class sessions – this
is, after all the IBM Room, and we’ll probably have a sucky projector
too – students might be able to do programming exercises in order to
understand operating systems concepts. Students will need Knoppix or
another Linux distribution; if I have them install it early, then they
can get a quick introduction to C and system calls.

Could this be a potential overlap with systems programming? OS is
supposed to prepare them for that anyway. Who knows, they might even
replace parts of the OS in their systems programming course. We
discussed pairing the operating systems course with the systems
programming course during the curriculum review, so it’s probably not
a bad idea.

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