How to teach OS

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:04:52 -0600, Zera William Holladay wrote:

> Hi, I have a pedagogical question.
> 
> 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?
> 
> When you took your first course in OSes, what was wrong with it?  What
> would you have taught yourself then?

Maybe several useful links will help you with it. Not exactly for BSD, but
in general OS developments.

http://mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2
	(nice OS FAQs)
http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/
	(nice forums for OS stuff)
http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=7355
	(nice Kernel101 documentation, lead to http://k101.f2g.net/)
http://www.osdever.net/
	(nice OS development place with forums, documentation and etc)
http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/os/os.html
	(A short introduction to operating systems)

mega-tokyo.com and osdever.net have several nice threads that will
leading you to the different places.


> I know these kinds of questions frequently pop-up on mailing lists (how do
> I become a developer, etc??), but I'm asking these questions with the
> intention of suggesting your ideas to my instructor so that I might be
> able to do them as assignments (and get grades for them).
> 
> Thank you, Zera Holladay