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Teaching experimental design in an operating systems class

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 31, Issue 1

Pages 316 - 320

https://doi.org/10.1145/384266.299796

Published: 01 March 1999 Publication History

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This paper describes an operating systems (OS) class that departs from more common approaches by introducing experimental design explicitly as part of the course material. Instead of implementing operating systems components or modifying existing operating systems, students conduct a series of experiments that measure the performance of system services and try to infer information about their implementation from the results. These experiments reinforce the OS concepts presented in lecture, and also develop a set of skills that students need for a wide range of activities: formulating and testing hypotheses, analyzing and presenting data, and writing.

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Teaching experimental design in an operating systems class
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
    2. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Computer and information systems training

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 31, Issue 1

March 1999

370 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/384266

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John Impagliazzo
Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY

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SIGCSE '99: The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 1999
383 pages
ISBN:1581130856
DOI:10.1145/299649
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Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
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