CSC360: Operating Systems

University of Victoria
Fall 2025

Course Outline: here

Overview: Introduction to Operating Systems; Operating system structures; Concurrent processes and programming; CPU scheduling; Deadlock; Memory management and virtual memory; File systems and storage management.

Prerequisites: Data structures (CSc 225 or 226); Computer architecture (CSc 230 or CENG 255); System programming (CSc/SENG 265, CENG).

Textbook: Operating System Concepts, 7th or newer Edition, Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 978-11193209-13.

Instructor: Dr. Wenjun Yang, ECS627, wenjunyang at uvic dot ca.

Office Hours: MR 10:15am – 11:15am, or by appointment.

TAs:

Jinwei (Clark) Zhao (clarkzjw at uvic dot ca)
Quanwei Zhang (quanweizhang at uvic dot ca)
Johnathan Warawa (johnnyw3 at uvic dot ca)

Lectures:

(A01/2) MR 8:30–9:50am, DSB C118
(A03/4) 11:30am–12:50pm, CLE A224

Tentative Lecture Schedule and Notes

Tutorials:

(T01) T 8:30–9:20am, MAC D115
(T02) W 1:30–2:20pm, COR B129
(T03) W 11:30am–12:20pm, DSB C118

Assessment for CSC360:
Assignments	55%
Midterm	45%

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