Finished the simple FIFO scheme. Worked with some minor refactoring! Happy day.

Sp LRU worked and only took like 6 lines of extra code to accomplish.

Basically, I keep a stack of active pages. Normally in the crappy FIFO style, if you need to swap a page into memory, you just replace the oldest guy there.

With LRU, every time a process refers to an active page in memory, I remove him from my list and re-add him at the 'top'.

That way, pages who get referenced a lot will not get swapped out as often.

This post was edited by Eep on Apr 20 2014 02:14am

hm... so looking forward to comp sci this semseter :S

you just starting on the degree? Or did you transfer?

going to be just starting my uni experience this fall

good luck! I can't speak from experience, because I finished 2 years of gen. ed at a community college before xfering to uni.

You'll most likely end up taking ~1 CS class a semester until the end I would imagine if you are starting at the very beginning.

Make sure to work on time management for stuff like calculus and discrete/algorithms eventually. Those classes require a LOT of outside class work, as your professors will often tell you.

haha sounds good. im starting off with comp sci 1620 with 2 sets of labs, right into programming :S

yeah. You should get right off into it. There is quite a bit to cover. The intro stuff is pretty easy.

Obvious tips:

Ask a shit load of questions if you have any. Professors are there for a reason

Form study groups or make friends. Don't feel bad about working together to solve a problem, just never copy another persons work directly. Having friends is especially useful if you miss a class and need the notes from that day.

Be ready to google a lot.

haha sounds good, one of my o workers started last sem, so i might be able to get some help from him hopefully, and i guess make new friends XD

that feel when you refactor 170+ lines of spaghetti into a much better flowing scheme of 60 lines.

gah, school gives me some bad habits. Thankfully I always remember good flow practices eventually!

This post was edited by Eep on Apr 29 2014 11:40pm