Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach
by Elmasri, Ramez; Carrick, A; Levine, DavidEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-02-11
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Science Engineering
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Summary
Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick's "spiral approach" to teaching operating systems develops student understanding of various OS components early on and helps students approach the more difficult aspects of operating systems with confidence. While operating systems have changed dramatically over the years, most OS books use a linear approach that covers each individual OS component in depth, which is difficult for students to follow and requires instructors to constantly put materials in context.Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick do things differently by following an integrative or "spiral" approach to explaining operating systems. The spiral approach alleviates the need for an instructor to "jump ahead" when explaining processes by helping students "completely" understand a simple, working, functional system as a whole in the very beginning. This is more effective pedagogically, and it inspires students to continue exploring more advanced concepts with confidence..
Table of Contents
| Operating Systems Overview and Background | |
| Getting Started | |
| Operating System Concepts, Components, and Architectures | |
| Building Operating Systems Incrementally: A Breadth-Oriented Spiral Approach | |
| A Simple, Single Process Operating System | |
| A Single User Multi-tasking Operating System | |
| An Advanced Single User Multi-tasking Operating System | |
| A Multiple-User Operating System - Linux | |
| Parallel and Distributed Computing, Clusters and Grids | |
| In Depth - Processes and Memory | |
| Process Management: Concepts, Threads, and Scheduling | |
| More Process Management: Inter-process Communication, Synchronization, and Deadlocks | |
| Basic Memory Management | |
| Advanced Memory Management | |
| In Depth - Files and Input/Output | |
| File Systems - Basics | |
| File Systems - Examples and More Features | |
| Disk Scheduling and Input/Output Management | |
| In Depth - Networks and Distributed Processing | |
| Introduction to Computer Networks | |
| Protection and Security | |
| Introduction to Distributed Systems | |
| Case Studies | |
| Windows Vista | |
| Linux | |
| The Palm OS Appendices | |
| Overview of Computer System and Architecture Concepts | |
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