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TKDAT 1112-2 Operating systems, EDA092

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1. How many hours per week did you spend on this course?

33 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		12		36%
Around 20 hours/week»		10		30%
Around 25 hours/week»		5		15%
Around 30 hours/week»		4		12%
At least 35 hours/week»		2		6%

Genomsnitt: 2.21

- Didn"t take the course but received the evaluation anyway.» (?)
- The course content was not entirely new to me, and I did not go to the lectures (see comment below).» (At most 15 hours/week)
- Had another course that took most of the time, so I didn"t have time to put all the time I wanted into this one.» (At most 15 hours/week)
- Over 50» (At least 35 hours/week)

2. How large part of the teaching offered did you attend?

33 svarande

0%»		3		9%
25%»		7		21%
50%»		10		30%
75%»		9		27%
100%»		4		12%

Genomsnitt: 3.12

- Didn"t take the course but received the evaluation anyway.» (?)
- Only went to the first lecture. The pace was way to slow for me so I felt that I"d do better sticking to the slides. Sorry about that, it"s nothing personal - had too many courses this period.» (0%)
- It probably was between 0% and 25%. The lectures were really boring, so the added value in going to the lectures compared to just reading the material seemed minimal, therefore I stopped going after a few lectures. The problem was the presentation style, not the content. » (0%)
- The Lectures didnt offer anything more then I could get from the book and the web based material. » (25%)
- With a lecturer that practically reads from the paper that is projected on the wall by the OH projector (which also is uploaded to the course website), I just see no reason to attend. It"s just impossible to keep focused» (25%)
- All my lectures collide with another course.» (25%)
- Did only go to about one lecture a week and none of the exercises. Did attend one lab time slot.» (25%)
- Knew most of the material before. » (25%)
- I would prefer to not have lectures to having this lecturer. He knows what is talking about, but knows nothing about didactics. The notes were good anyways.» (50%)
- the lectures they were really hard to follow basicly because of the teaching method which was boring» (50%)
- It became clear, after some time, that the lectures would not improve. During the lectures no proper explanations or proofs were made and it was therefore very difficult to understand the context of it all. The fact that all the "teachers notes" during the lectures were shown on an overhead severely complicated the ability to take notes, as the overhead-slides were shown at a much too rapid pace.» (50%)
- started to skip teaching as the teacher didnt teach anything but only tried to speak english while reading the overheads ster» (75%)
- Made most of the lectures, until I realised they were absolutely worthless.» (75%)
- 90%» (100%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

I have not seen/read the goals»		7		21%
The goals are difficult to understand»		0		0%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		9		27%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		17		51%

Genomsnitt: 3.09

- i usually don"t read them...» (I have not seen/read the goals)

4. Are the goals reasonable considering your background and the number of credits?

27 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»		0		0%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		25		92%
No, the goals are set too high»		2		7%

Genomsnitt: 2.07

5. Did the examination assess whether you have reached the goals?

No, not at all»		2		6%
To some extent»		16		55%
Yes, definitely»		7		24%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»		4		13%

Genomsnitt: 2.44

- Too much questions on details» (No, not at all)
- The examination contained several areas that the lectures had not covered. It was, in my mind, a complete misrepresentation of what the course should be about. According to the information given in preparation for the exam it was clearly stated that any calculator, chalmers-approved or not, was deemed ok to use. However, when the exam was to take place we were informed that only approved calculators were ok to use. This is, to be perfectly honest, unacceptable.» (No, not at all)
- I spent a lot of time learning: 1. The core functionality of modern operating systems. 2. Key concepts and algorithms in operating system implementations. 3. Implementation of simple OS components. But when I looked at the old exams I felt that they were testing my ability to learn old exams by heart more than anything else. I would have appreciated more open-ended questions that really gives the students the opportunity to show that they know 1,2,3 (above). The current questions are a little bit too narrow, but easy if you look at old exams.» (To some extent)
- More labs is probably better for learning more and getting a deeper understanding.» (To some extent)
- The focus was at a large degree on knowing things by hearth rather than understanding how it works.» (To some extent)
- The exam together with the labs did. The exam is more like a memory game. Which I think is ok, because labs were very interesting.» (To some extent)
- It was ok.» (To some extent)
- There were quite a few questions related to concurrent/parallell programming, especially on this terms exam. Although relevant to some extent, they should have been part of the required course parallell programming» (To some extent)
- I was not impressed with the exam. The question were a bit weird and there was no way when studying for the exam to know if you had it correct or not.» (To some extent)

Teaching and course administration

6. To what extent has the teaching been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		17		51%
Some extent»		10		30%
Large extent»		5		15%
Great extent»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 1.69

- What teaching? The lecturer standing bent over the overhead projector reading straight of the powerpoint slides?» (Small extent)
- close to none... he did read the overheads for me though» (Small extent)
- I only participated in a like 3 lectures.» (Small extent)
- Good slides» (Some extent)
- The lab sessions were good and some good help was offered. The lectures was absolutely worthless.» (Some extent)
- the last lab was hard to debug, and even the teachers did not know what to do.» (Large extent)

7. To what extent has the course literature and other material been of help for your learning?

Small extent»		9		27%
Some extent»		8		24%
Large extent»		7		21%
Great extent»		9		27%

Genomsnitt: 2.48

- Did note read the course litterature only read the lectures. » (Small extent)
- wikipedia was good, and people working with the subject.» (Small extent)
- Didn"t have the book at all» (Small extent)
- Modern Reglerteknik by Bertil Thomas is in my opinion a better book.» (Some extent)
- It was better then the lectures, but that doesn"t say much...» (Some extent)
- The powerpoint slides were somewhat confusing, but the exams seemed to be based solely on them.» (Large extent)
- Good books, and the handsouts also» (Large extent)
- The course book was hard to get, though. In fact I ended up not buying it because of it, and instead used the Tanenbaum book, since I already owned that.» (Large extent)
- The book was one of the best Ive got so far. It not only included the important parts of the course but also included other areas of computer science and put it all together.» (Great extent)
- I found myself very prepared for the exam by just reading the OH paper used on the lecture. Lab 1 and lab2.2 was also of great help!» (Great extent)
- Good slides.» (Great extent)
- wikipedia and to some extent the course book provided information» (Great extent)
- The best book I ever read! Now, I read it every day even if the course has ended.» (Great extent)

8. How well did the course administration, web page, handouts etc work?

Very badly»		1		3%
Rather badly»		8		25%
Rather well»		18		56%
Very well»		5		15%

Genomsnitt: 2.84

- Didn"t take the course but received the evaluation anyway.» (?)
- The course homepage was very badly. All information was there, but the structure of the page was a mess so all information was tangled up in several diffirent fontstyles and pages so it was actually hard do understand. Especially the laboration pages was really bad. However, the lab-pm was good and clear.» (Very badly)
- The webpage could be organized a bit better. Its just to much information bombarding you from the screen and its easy to miss information if you are notcarefull because of that reason. This is especially for the laboration and exercise parts or the webpage» (Rather badly)
- Especially gathering information about the labs.» (Rather badly)
- Unstructured and hard to find what you are looking for. Especially the labs pages.» (Rather badly)
- For unknown reasons some of the handout material had to be bought at the local university store, rather than being integrated into the slides which were put online. That made the material a bit inconsistent (e.g. supporting diagrams where in the handout instead of in the slides).» (Rather badly)
- The course home page was very messy and hard to overlook.» (Rather badly)
- The only people that were of any use were the two persons responsible for the hand-ins and the excercises. The lecturer and the course responsible were of no use.» (Rather badly)
- lots of text on the website, hard to find links because they"re embedded in a lot of text it seems like it"s a good idea to have a separate website and not depend on the studentportal since that seems to crash when you need it the most...» (Rather well)
- I like that the lecture slides were available before the lectures where held. I do recall that some links on the labs were not updated for this year.» (Very well)

Study climate

9. How were the opportunities for asking questions and getting help?

Very poor»		4		12%
Rather poor»		7		21%
Rather good»		11		34%
Very good»		6		18%
I did not seek help»		4		12%

Genomsnitt: 2.96

- Only time really was during the supervised labs, but you could be waiting for hours before it was your turn to get help. And once you got help, it was rarely that useful anyways.» (Very poor)
- lab assistants were unable to assist and examinator did not know what was oging on in the labrooms» (Very poor)
- Easy to get help at labs, not very friendly athmosphere for questions at lectures.» (Rather poor)
- The labassistents where very helpfull. They did a good job since they helped you enough to make it possible for yourself to solve the problem instead of serving a solution. I think that this approach made me work hard to try to learn as much as possible.» (Rather good)
- However, the lab assistants couldn"t help. They didn"t know the subject well enough. » (Rather good)
- The only people that were of any use were the two persons responsible for the hand-ins and the excercises. » (Rather good)

10. How well has cooperation between you and your fellow students worked?

Very poorly»		3		9%
Rather poorly»		1		3%
Rather well»		6		18%
Very well»		22		66%
I did not seek cooperation»		1		3%

Genomsnitt: 3.51

- Unfortunatly because of student related comnplications It was not possible to work togehter. » (Very poorly)
- My labpartner was a total idiot that was not nice to me. He tried to get me down or something by always say that I am wrong even when I was not. He never showed up when we hade decided for a meeting. He always rewrite my code (even if it was correct!). He has some serious issues to cooperate and will not be able to work in industry with that attitude.» (Very poorly)
- If we had not cooperated, we would not have had a chance of passing the course (with the way the hand-ins are set up). However, with an exam like this it is still very difficult, if not short of impossible, to pass the exam.» (Rather well)
- we had to cooperate between eachothers in order to complete the labs» (Very well)
- since you don"t get help from the teaching stuff it works well with your fellow students» (Very well)
- Me and my lab partner had a good cooperation.» (Very well)

11. How was the course workload?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		4		12%
Adequate»		16		48%
High»		8		24%
Too high»		5		15%

Genomsnitt: 3.42

- very low and then suddenly you had labs to hand in with short notice» (Adequate)
- Mostly because of the laboration load. The laborations could ease a bit with the load and they would be better.» (High)
- Labs were too hard, especially without any introduction.» (High)
- Shell lab took a lot of time... but it was worth it :)» (High)
- The idea of productive learning is not to compact 17 chapters and 3 lab assignments in 6 weeks.» (Too high)
- 2HP for lab assignments and the hand-ins is too little. The hand-ins took up 80% of all the study-time, which in turn affected the course that was read at the same time.» (Too high)

12. How was the total workload this study period?

Too low»		2		6%
Low»		1		3%
Adequate»		11		33%
High»		10		30%
Too high»		9		27%

Genomsnitt: 3.69

- lab deadlines collided» (Adequate)
- mainly because of the other course» (High)
- Had another course that took about 30+ hours each week.» (High)
- Too many chapters (lectures) were covered during the study period and also one too many lab"s were given. If the number of lectures reduces and we get more hands on experience that would make a huge difference in the way we learn things. We need to be prepared for the real world scenarios here, no need to focus so much on theory and on top of that we don"t even get graded for labs and spend sooooo much time on it. Some sort of load balancing would be great. If we are given all these labs to do why not get graded for it and have the lab contribute to your overall grade. It doesn"t make sense to be graded only on the exam but not the lab.» (Too high)
- Took too many courses... not your fault :)» (Too high)
- But not because of this course.» (Too high)

Summarizing questions

13. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		6		18%
Fair»		6		18%
Adequate»		6		18%
Good»		13		39%
Excellent»		2		6%

Genomsnitt: 2.96

- Worst course I"ve had at Chalmers to this point. Lecturer seems distant and to lack knowledge about the course that he is giving. Labs were hard, especially since the lecturer weren"t able to prepare us be teaching us what we needed to know.» (Poor)
- replace or reeducate the teacher in todays operating systems aswell as the english language and preferrably some rethorics» (Poor)
- The worst course I have ever read. This is mostly because of the exam being as unfair as it actually was. The hand-ins were also way too big.» (Poor)
- In my eyes, a good course needs good lecturers that will keep the subject interesting and good at teaching. This course didn"t have that. He had terrible English and just wasn"t good at teaching. If the course was held in Swedish it probably would have been better, but now it was a real struggle for him to even get himself understood.» (Poor)
- I liked the content, but was really dissatisfied with the lectures. Also, small parts of the course seemed a bit old-fashioned and out-dated. In this day and age it seems a little silly to discuss magnetic storage (including tapes and floppys) but no flash drives. » (Fair)
- If the lectures improves, and the workload on the laboration could ease just a tiny bit i would give a higher grade.» (Good)
- Interesting topic!» (Good)
- Could have been better webpage.» (Good)

14. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

15. What should definitely be changed to next year?

16. Additional comments