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Operating Systems: Process Synchronization and Memory Management

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Continue your Operating Systems learning journey! In this course, you will learn about synchronization, which ensures that threads in a multi-threaded program use shared resources safely. You will also learn about the operating system's role in controlling processes’ access to our computer’s memory.

Syllabus

  • Synchronization: Learn about synchronization and how it organizes the use of shared data amongst threads.
    • Lesson: Synchronization
    • Article: Deadlocks
    • Quiz: Synchronization Quiz
    • Article: Synchronization and Deadlock Problem Set
  • Memory Management: Learn about the techniques the operating system uses to manage memory.
    • Lesson: Memory Management
    • Quiz: Memory Management
    • Article: Memory Management Problem Set
    • Informational: Next Steps

Taught by

Kenny Lin

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