CSE301 Operating System

Course Description

Welcome to CSE301 Operating System! 🦕 This course is one of the core course of computer engineering as operating systems are essential for most computing systems to better utilize hardware resources and run user applications.

Time & Location

• This is an "online" course with no set class times or physical lecture rooms.

Objectives

• Learn the basic concepts that underlie modern operating systems

• Understand how operating systems manage hardware and software

• Know how an existing operating system is implemented under the hood

Structure

This course consists of three parts:

• Lecture delivered by the instructor

  • Cover the core concepts of operating systems in depth

• Quiz at the end of every chapter

  • Contain short questions that may appear on the exams

  • Students will be asked to complete the quiz after each chapter

• Exercise at the end of every part

  • Contain theoretical and practical questions that may be related to the exams

  • Students will be asked to submit their own written solutions after each part

Schedule

Exercise

• Part 1. Overview

• Part 2. Process Management

• Part 3. Process Synchronization

• Part 4. Memory Management

• Part 5. Storage Management

• Part 6. File System

Evaluation

The grade will be given according to the following grading percentages.

• Midterm Exam 30%

  • Date: October 26 (Mon), 2026 from 18:30 to 20:00

  • Format: Written exam, closed book

  • Coverage: Chapter 1. Introduction - Chapter 8. Deadlocks

• Final Exam 30%

  • Date: December 21 (Mon), 2026 from 18:30 to 20:00

  • Format: Written exam, closed book

  • Coverage: Chapter 9. Main Memory - Chapter 15. File System Internals

• Exercise 20%

• Quiz 10%

• Attendance 10%

Teaching Assistant

• Minwoo Kim, COS Lab, 📧

• Sungjun Jang, COS Lab, 📧

Literature

• Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne: Operating System Concepts. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021.