This is a living schedule and subject to change
Readings: BO - Bryant and O’Hallaron, M - Martin, T - Tarnoff
Date | Topic | Reading | Notes | Assignment |
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02/15 | Introductions, How programs run | BO 1 | 01-first.c, notes | Attendance form |
02/17 | Basic C | BO 2.1.1-2.1.5 | 02-power.c, 03-swap.c, notes | Attendance form, HW 1 |
02/19 | Pointers and arrays | 04-arrays.c | ||
02/22 | Arrays and strings | 05-maxarrays.c, 06-strings.c, notes | ||
02/24 | Number systems | M 2.1 | notes | HW 2 |
02/26 | Winter Carnival [no class] | |||
02/29 | Fixed precision numbers | M 2.2.1-2.2.3 | notes | |
03/02 | Boolean operations in C | M 2.5-2.6 | notes, 07-sizes.c, 08-endian.c | HW 3 |
03/04 | Floating point | M 2.2.4 | notes, 09-bits.c | |
03/07 | History of computers | HW 4 | ||
03/09 | More history | |||
03/11 | Bit More History, Fetch-execute cycle | History | ||
03/14 | Programming the ∑niac | Σniac reference | ||
03/16 | ∑niac to Intel | BO 3.1-3.5 | 10-samples.c | HW 5 |
03/18 | ASM basics | Basic x86-64 | ||
03/21 | ASM control flow | BO 3.6 | 11-controlflow.c | |
03/23 | More ASM control flow | BO 3.6 | notes | |
03/25 | ASM procedures | BO 3.7 | notes | HW 6 |
03/28-04/01 | Spring Break | |||
04/04 | ASM recursion | 12-factorial.c | ||
04/06 | Debugging with GDB | notes | ||
04/08 | Picking apart a program with GDB | Take home midterm | ||
04/11 | Data structures in C and ASM | BO 3.8-3.10 | 13-array.c | HW 7 |
04/13 | The heap | 14-memory.c | ||
04/15 | Spring symposium [no class] | |||
04/18 | Multidimensional arrays | 15-multiarray.c | ||
04/20 | Boolean algebra and digital circuits | T 4-6 [BO 4.2.1-4.2.2] | Logisim examples | |
04/22 | structs, unions, and adders | T 8 | 16-structures.c | HW 8 |
04/25 | Multiplexers, decoders, adders/subtractors | T 8 | Logisim adder | |
04/27 | Sequential circuits | T 10 | ||
04/29 | Registers and sequential design | HW 9 | ||
05/02 | Datapaths and the ∑niac | notes, ∑niac datapath | ||
05/04 | Pipelines and superscalar | Datapath | HW 10 | |
05/06 | Memory organization | T 12 | Memory, notes | |
05/09 | Caches | BO 6.2-6.4, T 13.4 | ||
05/11 | More caches | BO 6.2-6.4, T 13.4 | ||
05/13 | Yet more caches | BO 6.2-6.4, T 13. | notes | |
05/16 | Performance | BO 5.1-5.14 | notes | |
05/17-05/18 | Reading days | |||
05/19-05/24 | Exam Period |