CS 3210

Overview

This class teaches some Operating Systems (OS) concepts such as:

• Bootloading (how the processor wakes up and loads the OS kernel)
• Memory Paging
• Process Scheduling
• File systems

Additionally, you learn about some networking concepts.

This class is heavily project-based.

Past Semesters

Fall 2020

4 projects, 1 midterm, 1 final

Projects were on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system, with much of the class material from the associated open-source textbook.

Xv6 is a simple teaching operating system with many features missing. In the class projects, you implement some of those missing features.

Spring 2020 "Rust-mester"

Apparently, the project was very difficult. It involved writing an OS kernel from scratch using the Rust programming languages and testing it on a Raspberry Pi