Course details
Following on from “Procedural Programming with C" and “Computer Architecture and Organization"; students are introduced to the basic concepts, terminology and leveraging operating systems for concurrent software applications. COMP 4737 replaces COMP 4731 in the CST/PTS Diploma. Participants focus on using concurrent programming: processes and threads, inter-process communication (IPC), synchronization and mutual exclusion, deadlock and starvation with an introduction to memory organization. Theoretical topics include: overall operating system structure, operating systems services, how these services are used, and kernel architecture. Labs and exercises reinforce concepts with examples of using these operating system services within application programs. This course is equivalent to COMP 4736 in the Full-time CST Diploma. Upon successful completion, students will be able analyze, design and implement concurrent software applications. COMP 4737 is required for the Computer Systems (CST/PTS) Diploma and is offered twice per year the Winter (January) and Spring (May) terms.
Credits
4.0
Cost
$520.25 - $546.14 See individual course offerings below for actual costs.
Course offerings
Spring/Summer 2023
Below are three offerings of COMP 4737 for the Spring/Summer 2023 term.
CRN 68757
Duration
Tue May 23 - Tue Jul 25 (10 weeks)
- 10 weeks
- CRN 68757
- $546.14
Class meeting times
| Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23 - Jul 25 | Tue | 18:00 - 21:00 | Downtown DTC Rm. 688 |
| May 23 - Jul 25 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Instructor
Rahim Oraji
Course outline
Cost
$546.14
Important information
- Departmental approval needed
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Please email cstpts@bcit.ca for Departmental approval. Include your Student number (A0#) and COMP__ and preferred CRN __ and Program Declaration____. Course is 48 hours - 30 hours on campus and 18 hours asynchronous activities/labs. The class meets once per week for 3 hours on campus and requires an additional 1.5 to 2 hours per week asynchronously (as assigned by the instructor). This is a BYOD (bring your own device) course, participants must provide their own current model PC with an i5 or higher equivalent processor, 8 GB of RAM minimum, 256 GB minimum storage and high-speed internet access. Late registration is not permitted.
Status
In Progress and Full
This course offering is in progress and full. Please check back next term, subscribe to receive email updates or contact us with your comments or questions.
CRN 68759
Duration
Wed May 24 - Wed Jul 26 (10 weeks)
- 10 weeks
- CRN 68759
- $520.25
Class meeting times
| Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24 - Jul 26 | Wed | 18:00 - 21:00 | Online |
| May 24 - Jul 26 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Instructor
Rahim Oraji
Course outline
Cost
$520.25
Important information
- Internet delivery format.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
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Please email cstpts@bcit.ca for Departmental approval. Include your Student number (A0#) and COMP__ and preferred CRN __ and Program Declaration____. Course is 48 hours - 30 hours synchronous online classes and 18 hours asynchronous activities/labs. The class meets once per week for 3 hours online and requires an additional 1.5 to 2 hours per week asynchronously (as assigned by the instructor). Late registration is not permitted.
Status
In Progress and Full
This course offering is in progress and full. Please check back next term, subscribe to receive email updates or contact us with your comments or questions.
CRN 68914
Duration
Thu May 25 - Thu Jul 27 (10 weeks)
- 10 weeks
- CRN 68914
- $546.14
Class meeting times
| Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25 - Jul 27 | Thu | 18:00 - 21:00 | Downtown DTC Rm. 652 |
| May 25 - Jul 27 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Instructor
Rahim Oraji
Course outline
Cost
$546.14
Important information
- Departmental approval needed
-
Please email cstpts@bcit.ca for Departmental approval. Include your Student number (A0#) and COMP__ and preferred CRN __ and Program Declaration____. Course is 48 hours - 30 hours on campus and 18 hours asynchronous activities/labs. The class meets once per week for 3 hours on campus and requires an additional 1.5 to 2 hours per week asynchronously (as assigned by the instructor). This is a BYOD (bring your own device) course, participants must provide their own current model PC with an i5 or higher equivalent processor, 8 GB of RAM minimum, 256 GB minimum storage and high-speed internet access. Late registration is not permitted.
Status
In Progress and Full
This course offering is in progress and full. Please check back next term, subscribe to receive email updates or contact us with your comments or questions.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe the role of an operating system.
- Analyze how the operating system is structured (layers and components).
- Describe the operating system interface (system calls, shells).
- Use POSIX system calls in C.
- Describe synchronization concepts such as mutual exclusion, critical sections, and race conditions.
- Solve synchronization problems using constructs such as spinlocks, mutexes, semaphores, condition variables, and monitors.
- Compare and contrast synchronization of threads with semaphores and monitors.
- Discuss the consequences of concurrency: deadlock, starvation and livelock.
- Describe how to prevent, avoid, detect and recover from deadlock.
- Design and implement concurrent applications using processes and kernel-level and user-level threads.
- Solve IPC problems by implementing applications using methods such as signaling, messages, pipes, and shared memory.
Effective as of Fall 2022
Related Programs
Introduction to Operating Systems for CST (COMP 4737) is offered as a part of the following programs:
School of Computing and Academic Studies
- Computer Systems
Diploma Part-time
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