Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach (IE-Paperback)

Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick's 'spiral approach' to teaching operating systems develops student understanding of various OS components early on and helps students approach the more difficult aspects of operating systems with confidence. While operating systems have changed dramatically over the years, most OS books use a linear approach that covers each individual OS component in-depth, which is difficult for students to follow and requires instructors to constantly put materials in context. Elmasri, Levine, and Carrick do things differently by following an integrative or 'spiral' approach to explaining operating systems. The spiral approach alleviates the need for an instructor to 'jump ahead' when explaining processes by helping students 'completely' understand a simple, working, functional system as a whole in the very beginning. This is more effective pedagogically, and it inspires students to continue exploring more advanced concepts with confidence.

Elmasri、Levine和Carrick的「螺旋式教學法」對於教授作業系統有助於學生早期理解各種作業系統組件，並幫助學生自信地應對較困難的作業系統方面。雖然多年來作業系統已經發生了巨大變化，但大多數作業系統書籍仍然使用線性方法，深入介紹每個個別的作業系統組件，這對學生來說很難理解，並且需要教師不斷將材料放入上下文中。Elmasri、Levine和Carrick通過採用整合或「螺旋式」方法來解釋作業系統，從而與眾不同。螺旋式方法通過幫助學生在一開始就「完全」理解一個簡單、可運行、功能完整的系統，從而減輕了教師在解釋過程中需要「跳過」的需求。這在教學上更為有效，並激發學生以自信的態度繼續探索更高級的概念。