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Why did you take up a computer-related course?

Why should I take a course in operating systems?

  • I'm a Computer Science undergraduate student in my sophomore year, and all of the upperclassmen I've asked for course recommendations have recommended our university's course in Operating Systems as the most valuable course offered. I'd like to hear from experienced engineers why learning about the OS is so essential, especially considering that the likelihood of creating a new operating system in one's software engineering career is very low.

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    Learning to write your own OS might not be that useful, but learning how they work is likely to be invaluable.  At the very least, you'll know what an OS does for you and why certain things are the way they are, so you'll be better able to structure applications in ways that work with rather than against the OS.  Also, working on a variety of problems that are hard in different ways will give you a better understanding of how to deal with the unexpected challenges of real-world programming.  Operating systems are one such "training ground" as are compilers and databases.  Lastly, maybe you'll be one of the crazy ones who develops a taste for solving that particular set of problems.

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1)Every electronic item that has a screen is meant to have some sort of operating system in it. Equipped with the basic knowledge of working of OSes you'll have a very wide scope of job prospects. 2) With the knowledge of OS's working you have the power to create , change/modify stuffs. It gives birth to a feeling in you that you have some great power in your hands, like the Architect in The Matrix(Movie).

Yogiraj Banerji

If you are aspiring to work at IBM Systems Labs, Oracle Systems, HP Labs, VMWare, Novell, Red Hat, EMC, NetApp etc.. you should be taking your OS course and distributed systems pretty seriously. Well, if you ever want to research on the systems front, my suggestion: See if OS is the field you want to do research in, the main purpose of undergraduate school is for you to decide in which field you want to contribute more. Research isn't about writing one or two IEEE papers and gaining fame, it is about your passion towards that technology. I personally believe that you'll only be able to contribute to good research if you really love that subject/technology.

Thirumal Venkat

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