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- OSAVA:An Android App for Teaching a Course on Operating Systems
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Authors
Pinaki Chakraborty
1,
Udit Arora
1,
Vipra Goel
1,
Siddarth Shikhar
1,
Rohit Takhar
1,
Namrata Mukhija
2,
Priyanka .
2
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1 Division of Computer Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi 110078, IN
2 Division of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi 110078, IN
1 Division of Computer Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi 110078, IN
2 Division of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi 110078, IN
Source
Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, Vol 32, No 4 (2019), Pagination: 20-30Abstract
We have developed an Android app named Operating System Algorithms Visualization App (OSAVA) to visualize different types of algorithms used in operating systems. We have used it to teach a course on operating systems in the Spring semester of 2016, 2017 and 2018. The course was attended by 243 undergraduate students and 84% of them said that OSAVA helped them in understanding the algorithms. The students scored 6% more marks in the exam than the students of the previous year who were taught without the app. We feel that implementing the tool as a mobile app allowed the students to use it during lectures and proved particularly helpful in its integration in the course.Keywords
Educational Software, Android App, Operating System, Algorithm Visualization.
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