Resumen de teaching operating systems with source code UNIX
It's early April and the end of spring break at the University of Colorado. I have a couple more days before the next lecture to finish grading the programming project that illustratrea a file's on-disk layout. I also must work through the next project -implementing "undelete" in the kernel before assigning it to the 95 college juniors.
Back in December, the computer science chair asked me to teach the undergraduate operating system course. I asked what resources were available to me and was offered a set of notes from the previous semester. That's couse home work was based on binary-only Windows NT. I inspected the material and found the assignments were just "userland" programing projects.
I chose to teach the course using a source-code, production operating system. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of my decision. I'll outline a couple of the programming projects with the lessons learned, and I'll pass along some of the students' comments. The course assignments and solutions are posted at
