Operating Systems: Introduction

Learn about the basics of Operating Systems.
Ready to start your journey into Operating Systems? The moment a computer is turned on, the operating system is hard at work managing every aspect of a computer. With the responsibility of seamlessly managing hardware and software systems, computer memory, process scheduling, and more, the operating system may be the most vital software a computer runs.



### Take-Away Skills
This course will cover content such as:
* The basics of what an Operating System is
* How computers work and how they interact with Operating Systems
* An overview of important hardware

• Introduction to Operating Systems: Learn about how computers process data, the important hardware in every computer, and the basic functionalities of an operating system.
• Informational: Introduction: Fundamentals of Operating Systems
• Lesson: How Computers Work
• Article: Important Hardware
• Article: Basics of Operating Systems
• Article: Introduction to Operating Systems Problem Set
• Informational: Next Steps