Puzzles and games: addressing different learning styles in teaching operating systems concepts

Posted on November 10th, 2003 by Sacha Chua

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/611892.611964

Lots of ideas for teaching operating systems. I remember the
crosswords from CS161 and I intend to have crossword and
find-and-match exercises. (Should go through the word puzzle book) The
paper described a process state transition game and a battlethreads
game. The Battlethreads game looks like a good way to emphasize the
difference between processes and threads. The process state transition
game looks a bit complex and the paper has some cautionary notes.

I’d like to learn under these teachers.

_Very_ interesting citations.

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