DEVELOPING A SIMPLE, INTERACTIVE AND EASY SIMULATION TOOL FOR THE TEACHERS/UNDERGRAD STUDENTS WITH A VIEW TO TEACHING/LEARNING CPU SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS

Nitu AM, Uddin MP, Islam MM, Islam MS (2015) Developing a simple, interactive and easy simulation tool for the teachers/undergrad students with a view to teaching/learning CPU scheduling algorithms. Ins. Engg. Tech. 5(1), 25-29. Operating System is one of the most significant courses for under-graduate students of Computer Science. In this paper a very simple, interactive and easy simulator has been developed for the teachers as well as the under-graduate students of computer science to teach as well as learn various CPU scheduling algorithms used for Operating System course. The key objective of using this simulator is to teach the students about the basic CPU scheduling algorithms visually. This will provide a clear and better understanding about how a scheduling policy executes. An under- graduate student will run the simulator and visualize how the processes get attention of the CPU following different scheduling policies.

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