Week 1

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 This first week in CST 334: Operating Systems was more of an introduction to the topics we will study in the course.  We discussed the basics of what an operating system is and the purpose/history of operating systems.  An operating system (OS) is the main piece of software on a computer that manages all of the hardware and allocated the resources of the computer such as the random access memory (RAM).  Think of the OS as the middleman between the user and the computer hardware, it manages the memory, CPU, and the external devices connected to the computer.

We also learned how to navigate the terminal as well as the basic shell commands to get us started.  I used vim to write my first-ever bash script that reviewed some of the shell commands as well as some variable manipulations and simple arithmetic.  The main purpose of this first assignment was to familiarize ourselves with the command line and not rely on an IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ.

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