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[etirflita]

I hope to have an answer for you soon about Intro to Operating Systems. I sent in my transcript and it was received on the 26th of October (currently enrolled), so I hope to hear back in the next few days. The only additional courses I had were Intro to Operating Systems and Database Management (which has already been established), so it should be a fairly quick turnaround.

[armstrongsubero]

I think TESU will put the intro to operating systems as ITS-160, Fundamentals of Modern Operating Systems .

[etirflita]

I mostly did it as a test to see how it transfers and whether it fulfills the BACS requirement. It wouldn't take much more to bang out CS:305, but this way we'll know.

[armstrongsubero]

Just finished the final exam and submitted assignment for Computer Architecture. Operating Systems is next on my list.

[timblackwell]

Just finished the final exam and submitted assignment for Computer Architecture. Operating Systems is next on my list.

how long did the course take you? how hard were the quiz/exams?

[armstrongsubero]

The course was okay, I took 4 days between working full time. I have a passion for hardware though and love electronics, so I may be a little biased. I thought it was adequate for a UL course, but too heavily text based. Some of the question on the quizzes were tricky, just a few typos here and there. Though I already made my own CPU, the final assignment to create one in Logisim was difficult, you have to design your own CPU, the ALU was easy but the course provided almost no knowledge on the Control Unit so I tried something for the final project. You also have to design your own assembly language and write programs with it. I felt the course did not cover enough to design your own assembly language, but I did what I could.

The course was about 6/10 in terms of difficulty for me. Not impossible, but not easy. I got 87% in the final preliminary results, which was a bit disappointing, the final was easy compared to the quizzes.

As long as I get like 40% on the final project I will pass, so hopefully I get some marks. I learned a lot and I only got through it in 4 days because I have been playing with electronics since I was 8. Flip flops, Schmitt triggers, binary all that stuff is in my domain, so that part of the course was easiest for me. There are some parts that are easy (distributed, parallel computing etc) and is like common IT knwoledge that anyone who worked in industry will know. Some parts however are a bit obscure and you wont come across outside the course, so I learnt a lot from the course.

I was also glad I just finished the discrete math course as it helped a little with understanding some of the more complex logic topics (simplifying, k-maps etc), so I recommend doing the discrete math course first.

Overall I say if you tinkered with electronics (op amps, 4011s etc), programming C or Assembly (PIC, AVR, STM8) and are comfortable with propositions and simplifying logic expressions you will do okay. For anyone else I HIGHLY recommend you do the discrete math course first and read the book "Digital Electronics: Principles, Devices and Applications" I read the book a few years back and thankfully I did as I referenced it in the final project. And though I used assembly already I did struggle with the writing programs with the assembly language I designed.

Hope this helps someone, honestly I think this is one of the more difficult courses I have done. DEFINITELY deserves that UL designation.

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I hoped that final assignment could have been in VHDL or Verilog! I would have nailed it.

[posabsolute]

wow.

The way you tell it this sounds like even for you that design things like this before, you found the assignment difficult. I'm a web programmer and while the assignment sounds fun, it also sounds like much more work than usual SDC UL courses.

[armstrongsubero]

@posabsolute this was just ny experience, maybe its cause I am accustomed doing stuff a certain way.

You can try it, that final assignment is no walk in the park.

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@posabsoulte oh you a web dev? I was thinking of making a career change and getting back into the tech industry. The embedded market here is non-existant.

I am learning rails and node right now, it seems all the remote jobs require it.

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In case you are interested here is my 8 bit CPU I built in VHDL

https://github.com/ArmstrongSubero/FPGA?files=1

It's more more complex than the one you will build on SDC, but I know VHDL desribing logic is easier than building it in logisim with the constraints they set.

[armstrongsubero]

Got an 86% on the final project for computer architecture! It seems like I'm getting a 90% on the course once my proctored grade is verified!!!

[armstrongsubero]

Just got my grade on discrete math! I passed!! Yay!!