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
Mon	Feb 8	1	remote	Introduction, Lab 0	Ch. 1 (skim)	Intro Slides
Wed	Feb 10	2	remote	Numbering Systems	Ch. 2.1	Representation Slides
Fri	Feb 12	3	remote	Bitwise Operators			Binary Exercises
Mon	Feb 15	4	remote	Integer Representations	Ch. 2.2
Wed	Feb 17	5	in-person	Integer Representations, Lab 1			Representation Exercises
Fri	Feb 19	6	in-person	Integer Representations	Ch. 2.3		Bitpuzzle Exercises
Mon	Feb 22	7	in-person	Floating-Point Representations	Ch. 2.4		Logic Exercises
Wed	Feb 24	8	in-person	Floating-Point Representations			Float Exercises
Fri	Feb 26	9	in-person	Memory and Pointers	Pointers tutorial	Memory Slides
Mon	Mar 1	10	in-person	Pointers and Arrays			Pointer Exercises
Wed	Mar 3	11	remote	Strings, Lab 2
Fri	Mar 5	12	in-person	Memory Allocation
Mon	Mar 8	13	in-person	Debugging, Lab D
Wed	Mar 10	14	in-person	x86-64 ISA, Data Movement	Ch. 3.1-3.4	x86-basics Slides
Fri	Mar 12	15	in-person	x86 Arithmetic	Ch. 3.5		Operand Exercises
Mon	Mar 15	16	in-person	Condition Codes & Conditionals	Ch. 3.6	x86-control Slides
Wed	Mar 17	17	in-person	Reverse Engineering, Lab 3	GDB Reference
Fri	Mar 19		in-person	Midterm Exam
Mon	Mar 22			No Class: Spring Break
Wed	Mar 24	18	in-person	Loops & Switches
Fri	Mar 26	19	in-person	Jump Tables
Mon	Mar 29	20	in-person	Procedures & Stacks	Ch. 3.7	x86-procedures Slides
Wed	Mar 31	21	in-person	Procedure Memory
Fri	Apr 2	22	in-person	Arrays & Structs	Ch. 3.8-3.9	x86-structures Slides	Array Exercises
Mon	Apr 5	23	remote	Structs & Buffer Overflow	Ch. 3.10	Buffers Slides
Wed	Apr 7	24	remote	Code Injection Attacks
Fri	Apr 9	25	remote	Buffer Overflow Defenses
Mon	Apr 12	26	in-person	ROP Attacks, Lab 4
Wed	Apr 14	27	in-person	Caching & Cache Designs	Ch. 6.1	Caching Slides
Fri	Apr 16	28	in-person	Direct-Mapped Caches	Ch. 6.4		Caching Exercises
Mon	Apr 19	29	in-person	Associative Caches			Associative Exercises
Wed	Apr 21	30	in-person	Locality, Lab 5	Ch. 6.2-6.3, 6.5
Fri	Apr 23	31	in-person	Processes	Ch. 8.2	Process Slides
Mon	Apr 26	32	in-person	Exceptional Control Flow	Ch. 8.1
Wed	Apr 28	33	in-person	Process Control & Shells	Ch. 8.3		Fork Exercises
Fri	Apr 30	34	in-person	Lab 5 Discussion
Mon	May 3	35	in-person	Process Control	Ch. 8.4
Wed	May 5	36	in-person	Signals	Ch. 8.5
Fri	May 7	37	in-person	Concurrency & Threads
Mon	May 10	38	in-person	Lab 6 Discussion
Wed	May 12	39	in-person	Virtual Memory	Ch. 9.1	Vm-wrapup Slides
Fri	May 14	40	in-person	Virtual Memory, Lab 6
Mon	May 17	41	in-person	Beyond 2330 & Wrap-up