ENCE360-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Operating Systems

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course provides an overview of the concept of operating systems. An operating system is the most important system software and manages all the resources of a computer. This course provides a detailed view of operating system functions such as process management, memory management, I/O management, file management and virtualisation. This course also provides information about concepts such as mutual exclusion, and concurrent processes. There is an emphasis on design, implementation, and evaluation of modern operating systems including mobile and real-time operating systems.

Prerequisites

ENCE260. RP: COSC110 or COSC101, COSC262.

Restrictions

COSC321

Recommended Preparation

COSC110 or COSC101, COSC262.

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 20%
Lab Test 20%
Lab quizzes 10%
Final Exam 50%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau; Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces ; (https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,059.00

International fee $6,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering .

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