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+  * Class designed for students majoring in Computer Science or in areas having a strong emphasis in Computer Science. Sound knowledge of data structures and C pogramming.
-== Course Topics: ==
-  * Unordered List Item
+== Course Topics: ==
+* Structure of a process: address space, registers, program counter and the stack.
+* Asynchronous activity: hardware and software interrupts, service routines.
+* Multiprogramming: programming for concurrency, process and thread, shared data, race conditions, critical sections and tools/techniques for multiprogramming such as mutual exclusion, semaphores and strict message passing.
+* Memory management: memory allocation, stack, heap, virtual memory.
+* File systems: file organization and interfacing with secondary storage.
+* The operating system kernel: internals and interfacing via system calls.
+* Distributed computing: communication, client/server model, remote procedure calls.
 == Course Format: ==
-  * Lecture format:
+  * Lecture format: in class lecture
-  * Online materials location and format:
+  * Online materials location and format: moodle
-  * Lab or tutorial format and expectations:
+  * Lab or tutorial format and expectations: in class labs
 == Method of evaluation: ==
-  * Number of Assignments:
+  * Number of Assignments: 3
-  * Number of Graded Labs:
+  * Number of Graded Labs: 0
-  * Number of Quizzes:
+  * Number of Quizzes: 0
-  * Formal Midterm?
+  * Formal Midterm? yes
-  * Course project?
+  * Course project? no
-  * Final Exam?
+  * Final Exam? yes
-  * Group work?
+  * Group work? no
-  * mostly programming assignments?
+  * mostly programming assignments? yes
-  * Written documents?
+  * Written documents? readme files in assignment submission