CST334 Module 1

 Write a 1 - 2 paragraph description of what you learned this first week in CST 334

This week was a introduction into operating systems with a heavy focus on what their purpose is and how they accomplish that task. Overall, the purpose of an operating system is to provide a layer of abstraction from the hardware level so that users don't have to have a large pool of high level knowledge in order to complete simple tasks. An operating system does this by handling multiple aspects of the system such as file permissions, instruction order, and hardware management. 

An operating system handles hardware management through multiple sets of APIs, it handles the instruction order so that system hardware is utilized efficiently, and it handles file permissions in order to uphold a layer of privacy and security in the system files.