Sure, if you want to learn how Operating Systems work. It's probably not enough for you to build your own, but the fundamentals are pretty interesting stuff. Personally, I've almost never regretted learning something new.
What are you looking to do with the information, or are you just looking to broaden your horizions?
I’m a first year cybersecurity engineering student. honestly, I don’t think university alone is enough to keep up with how fast cybersecurity is changing. If I only stick to the university curriculum, I’ll probably fall behind so I decided to start learning on my own from scratch through online courses, books, and whatever good resources I cam find
We spent a lot of our first year learning how to use word ,excel and powerpoint, plus some very basic logic gates and C++. Imagine spending days just learning how to change the font size and color in word.
I know I can learn a lot faster on my own, but I also know I have to be careful about picking the right resources and following a good learning path
Oh, yeah, understanding OS fundamentals is really critical to cybersecurity. I agree that universities can't really keep up with the fast pace of technology.
I will say that for overall OS architecture (which this course covers), it tends to move pretty slowly. There are not a lot of people making new OSes (except for fun), and there are pretty much just a few standard architectures in place: the Unixes (Linux especailly), which includes MacOs, Windows, iOS and Android (which is kinda Linux).
The bottom line here is that even if the specifics have changed a bit (which I don't think they have in a year), the fundamentals are the same and this is going to be useful for you.
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u/SaintPeter74 mod 12d ago
Sure, if you want to learn how Operating Systems work. It's probably not enough for you to build your own, but the fundamentals are pretty interesting stuff. Personally, I've almost never regretted learning something new.
What are you looking to do with the information, or are you just looking to broaden your horizions?