CS2106-Related Wikipedia Pages
Here are some wikipedia pages that are related to concepts in CS2106, for students who are keen to go beyond what is covered in CS2106. I will keep updating this page as we go along.
Disclaimer: Wikipedia is open to editing by anyone. Read the articles with a critical mind and think before you absorb the information.
Computer Organization
| CPU Program Counter Call Stack Program Status Word Memory RAM ROM |
Bus Disk Hard Disk I/O Device Drivers Interrupt |
Interrupt Handler Interrupt Vector DMA BIOS |
C and UNIX Programming
| C UNIX C Standard Library POSIX |
Compiler Proprocessor Linker Loader |
Pointers Memory Leaks Struct Typedef Function Pointers |
Operating Systems and Its Structures
Processes and Threads
| Process Control Block Process ID Fork Child Process Parent Process |
Exit Wait Exec |
Context Switch Thread Light-weight Process Process Group |
Inter-process Communication
Scheduling
| CPU scheduling FCFS SJF |
Shortest Remaining Time First Priority Scheduling Round Robin Scheduling |
MLFQ |
Memory Management
File Systems
| File Systems Journaling FS |
FAT Fragmentation |
inode inode pointer structure |