Device Drivers: Managing Hardware Complexity in Operating Systems

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Covers the importance and challenges of operating systems, their omnipresence, impact on programs, and role as illusionists and referees.

Covers algorithmic complexity and travel time analysis, focusing on measuring the time taken by algorithms and evaluating their performance.

Introduces the fundamental concepts of pointers in C programming, emphasizing their utility for memory access and dynamic allocation.

Covers how the shell manages processes and demonstrates output redirection in UNIX-like systems.

Covers the interaction between operating systems and IO devices, focusing on hardware fundamentals and performance implications.

Covers the fundamental concepts of pointers and references in C++, including dynamic memory allocation and pointers to functions.

Covers the basics of C programming, including syntax, data types, pointers, arrays, and compilation commands.