CS 242Principles of Computer Science 3
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Last listed
- 1992–93
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1988–89 to 1992–93; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
The function of modern operating systems and their relationship to the computer architecture that underlies their implementation, including file systems, I/O and interrupt handling, CPU scheduling and swapping, memory management, parallel processing. The course also includes an overview of computer networking, performance monitoring, modeling and simulation, and the social implications of computing.
As printed in the 1988–89 to 1992–93 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: CS 241
Antireq: CS 117, 212, 230, 234, 235, 240, 250
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
One post or comment in 1 thread mentions CS 242, March 2023 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2023
CS 242 Worries 2 points, 2 comments
u/gaming_is_illegal: “I enrolled in cs242 but when I checked quest this morning it said the class was full. I really need this class to graduate is there any way to override the student limit?”
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1988–89 to 1992–93, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1988–89 to 1992–93 5 calendars
The function of modern operating systems and their relationship to the computer architecture that underlies their implementation, including file systems, I/O and interrupt handling, CPU scheduling and swapping, memory management, parallel processing. The course also includes an overview of computer networking, performance monitoring, modeling and simulation, and the social implications of computing.
Prereq: CS 241
Antireq: CS 117, 212, 230, 234, 235, 240, 250