Brief Introduction
This is a self-paced course from NYU that provides an Introduction to Computer Hardware and Operating Systems
Description
This is a self-paced course that provides an Introduction to Computer Hardware and Operating Systems
This course will cover topics including:
- Fundamentals of system hardware
- Introduction to OS concepts
- OS processes and threads
- Thread concurrency and deadlocks
- Memory management
Knowledge
- By the end of this course students should be able to:
- Define a computer
- Define what an operating system is
- Describe components of an operating system
- Describe how threads work in an operating system
- Describe how memory works in an operating system
- Describe how data is represented and how computers execute instructions to use and modify data in order to solve problems.