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CS361

Computer Software and Operating Systems

Course DirectorySNHU CS361 has 1 direct prerequisite, with 10 courses in its complete prerequisite tree.

Undergraduate · 3 credits

This course explores the major components of an operating system. Topics covered include processes, threads, mutual exclusion and synchronization, deadlock and starvation, memory management, virtual memory, scheduling on single and multiprocessors, I/O management and scheduling, and file systems.

Prerequisite Tree

  • CS218 — Data Structure and Algorithms
    • CS210 — Programming Languages
      • IT145 — Foundation in Application Development
        • CS110 — Fundamentals of Programming
        • IT140 — Introduction to Scripting
    • CS217 — Object Oriented Programming
      • CS113 — Introduction to Programming
      • CS113L — Introduction to Programming Lab
      • IT145 — Foundation in Application Development
        • CS110 — Fundamentals of Programming
        • IT140 — Introduction to Scripting
    • MAT230 — Discrete Mathematics
    • MAT239 — Mathematics for Computing

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