Learning Programming by applied activities: an example with topics of Operating Systems
- Autores: E. Gibaja, M. Luque, A. Zafra
- Localización: Enseñanza y aprendizaje de ingeniería de computadores: Revista de Experiencias Docentes en Ingeniería de Computadores, ISSN-e 2173-8688, Nº. 8, 2018, págs. 17-26
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
When a teacher is preparing a collection of exercises, a connection between the subject and the context of the degree would be desirable. Nevertheless, finding practical examples of the topics of the subject with application to other subjects is occasionally difficult. This work presents a practical proposal for simultaneously practicing concepts of computer programming and operating systems which faces the students to a real problem. In this way the students are more motivated increasing their success probabilities. Among the topics of operating systems, process scheduling has been chosen for practice is computer programming. In general terms, a scheduler manages which process will be executed in a certain moment. Some of the strategies used to perform this management employ FIFO or LIFO structures, which are typical contents of computer programming. Thereby, the development and implementation of a scheduler would allow students applying and reinforcing these concepts. The proposal may be interesting for teachers of Programming, Data Structures and Operating Systems in a Computer Science degree.
