CST334 - Week 8

 Wow, this is the final week for this course in Operating Systems! I have learned a lot this week and over the course of eight weeks. Concepts that did not really make sense to me during the week it was a topic, was revisited with the opportunity to make up programming assignments. I am pleased to know I was able to make some changes to my code to pass all the tests for it. If I can succeed in attempting another programming assignment to get full points, I will feel some sense of accomplishment.

I was excited to learn about operating systems and came in with no real understanding of it besides the basics. I had no idea how in depth it would go and how much I would struggle to grasp the concepts. Perhaps if there was more time. However, when I started this class, I was also given a special project assignment to take live data and use it to point an antenna. Although I only had to focus on the mathematical portions while my partner set up everything else using C, I was puzzled about a lot of the code he had. The first thing I noticed was calls to lock, mutex, the use of threads, and I just ignored it to move into my portion. As this course went on, a lot of the things he did began to make sense, which made me really excited! I have since gone back to reanalyze the code in its entirety and I am very pleased to be able to make out the importance of what he did to ensure the protection and execution of each thread. Taking this class will make me more of an asset on future projects that gets assigned to me.

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