Re: How to teach OS

["George Georgalis" <george@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:04:52AM -0600, Zera William Holladay wrote:
>
>If you (a developer) were teaching a first level college course in
>operating systems with the goal of (eventually) transforming each student
>into a *BSD developer, then how would you teach the course?
>Specifically, what programming assignments would you have?  What material
>would you cover?

Learn Pascal: programs, data types and structures. The forced structure is
a good introduction to Unix OS process segmentation, IMHO. If programming
is not a prerequisite, you may turn out a bunch of enterprise red hats.

// George


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