Did not take that particular class, but loved taking the equivalent at my university when I was a student. I highly recommend taking this type of class to anyon

Did not take that particular class, but loved taking the equivalent at my university when I was a student. I highly recommend taking this type of class to anyone who wants to understand what happens on a low level, but not down to the OS internals level. Systems programming. Threads, processes, shared memory, synchronized access, pipes, file descriptors, ... The list goes on, but at the end of the day, basically all higher level constructs boil down to these system primitives. Understand these, and you have a much better foundation to understand high level concepts built on top of them.