Schedule

The course schedule is tentative and subject to change. This page will be updated frequently to reflect the most up-to-date schedule. Chapter sections refer to the Computer Systems textbook.

Date		Class	Type	Topic	Readings	Slides	Exercises
Wed	Sep 1	1	in-person	Introduction, Lab 0	Ch. 1 (skim)	Intro Slides
Fri	Sep 3	2	in-person	Numbering Systems	Ch. 2.1	Representation Slides	Binary Exercises
Mon	Sep 6	3	in-person	Bitwise Operators
Wed	Sep 8	4	in-person	Integer Representations	Ch. 2.2		Representation Exercises
Fri	Sep 10	5	in-person	Bit Puzzles, Lab 1	Ch. 2.3		Bitpuzzle Exercises
Mon	Sep 13	6	in-person	Integer Representations			Logic Exercises
Wed	Sep 15	7	in-person	Floating-Point Representations	Ch. 2.4		Float Exercises
Fri	Sep 17	8	in-person	Floating-Point, Memory		Memory Slides
Mon	Sep 20	9	in-person	Memory and Pointers	Pointers tutorial		Pointer Exercises
Wed	Sep 22	10	in-person	Arrays and Strings			Array Exercises
Fri	Sep 24	11	in-person	Memory Allocation, Lab 2
Mon	Sep 27	12	in-person	Debugging, Lab D	GDB Reference Sheet
Wed	Sep 29	13	in-person	Machine Code & x86-64	Ch. 3.1-3.4	x86-basics Slides
Fri	Oct 1	14	in-person	Data Movement	Ch. 3.5		Operand Exercises
Mon	Oct 4	15	in-person	Arithmetic & Condition Codes	Ch. 3.6	x86-control Slides
Wed	Oct 6	16	in-person	Conditionals, Reverse Engineering
Fri	Oct 8	17	in-person	Loops, Lab 3			Gdb Exercises
Mon	Oct 11			No Class: Fall Break
Wed	Oct 13	18	in-person	Switches & Jump Tables
Fri	Oct 15	19	in-person	Procedures & Stacks	Ch. 3.7	x86-procedures Slides
Mon	Oct 18		in-person	Midterm Exam
Wed	Oct 20	20	in-person	Procedure Memory
Fri	Oct 22	21	in-person	Arrays & Structs	Ch. 3.8-3.9	x86-structures Slides	Multiarray Exercises
Mon	Oct 25	22	in-person	Structs & Buffer Overflows	Ch. 3.10	Buffers Slides
Wed	Oct 27	23	in-person	Code Injection Attacks
Fri	Oct 29	24	in-person	ROP Attacks, Lab 4
Mon	Nov 1	25	in-person	Data Storage & Caching	Ch. 6.1	Caching Slides
Wed	Nov 3	26	in-person	Direct-Mapped Caches	Ch. 6.4
Fri	Nov 5	27	in-person	Caching & Associativity			Caching Exercises
Mon	Nov 8	28	in-person	Associative Caches			Associative Exercises
Wed	Nov 10	29	in-person	Locality, Lab 5	Ch. 6.2-6.3, 6.5
Fri	Nov 12	30	in-person	Exceptional Control Flow	Ch. 8.1-8.2	Process Slides
Mon	Nov 15	31	in-person	Lab 5 Discussion
Wed	Nov 17	32	in-person	Process Control & Shells	Ch. 8.4		Fork Exercises
Fri	Nov 19	33	in-person	Signals	Ch. 8.5
Mon	Nov 22			No Class: Thanksgiving Break
Wed	Nov 24			No Class: Thanksgiving Break
Fri	Nov 26			No Class: Thanksgiving Break
Mon	Nov 29	34	in-person	Reaping, Lab 6	Ch. 8.3
Wed	Dec 1	35	in-person	Concurrency & Threads
Fri	Dec 3	36	in-person	Lab 6 Discussion
Mon	Dec 6	37	in-person	Virtual Memory	Ch. 9.1	Vm-wrapup Slides
Wed	Dec 8	38	in-person	Compilers and Linkers
Fri	Dec 10	39	in-person	Logic Gates & Wrap-up