COM SCI 235 · CS 235Advanced Operating Systems
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
In-depth investigation of operating systems issues through guided construction of research operating system for PC machines and consideration of recent literature. Memory management and protection, interrupts and traps, processes, interprocess communication, preemptive multitasking, file systems. Virtualization, networking, profiling, research operating systems. Series of laboratory projects, including extra challenge work.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Preparation: C or C++ programming experience. Requisite: course 111.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM SCI 235
- COM SCI 111Operating Systems Principles
- COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- COM SCI 33Introduction to Computer Organization
- COM SCI 35LSoftware Construction
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 8 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.