CSCI 2330
Foundations of Computer Systems
Spring 2023
Instructor: Sean Barker
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 | Topic | Readings | Slides | Exercises | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | Jan 24 | 1 | Introduction, Lab 0 | Ch. 1 (skim) | Intro Slides | |
| Thu | Jan 26 | 2 | Numbering Systems | Ch. 2.1 | Representation Slides | Binary Exercises |
| Fri | Jan 27 | 3 | Bitwise Operators | Ch. 2.2 | Bitwise Exercises | |
| Tue | Jan 31 | 4 | Integer Representations | Ch. 2.3 | Representation Exercises | |
| Thu | Feb 2 | 5 | Bit Puzzles, Lab 1 | Bitpuzzle Exercises | ||
| Fri | Feb 3 | 6 | Logic, Floating-Point Numbers | Ch. 2.4 | Logic Exercises | |
| Tue | Feb 7 | 7 | IEEE 754, Memory & Endianness | Memory Slides | Float Exercises | |
| Thu | Feb 9 | 8 | Pointers | Pointers tutorial | Pointer Exercises | |
| Fri | Feb 10 | 9 | Arrays and Strings | Array Exercises | ||
| Tue | Feb 14 | 10 | Memory Layout & Segments | |||
| Thu | Feb 16 | 11 | Memory Allocation, Lab 2 | |||
| Fri | Feb 17 | 12 | Debugging, Lab D | GDB Reference | ||
| Tue | Feb 21 | 13 | x86-64 ISA, Data Movement | Ch. 3.1-3.4 | x86-basics Slides | |
| Thu | Feb 23 | 14 | x86 Arithmetic | Ch. 3.5 | Operand Exercises | |
| Fri | Feb 24 | 15 | Condition Codes & Conditionals | Ch. 3.6 | x86-control Slides | |
| Tue | Feb 28 | 16 | Loops, Reverse Engineering | x86-64 Registers | Assembly Exercises | |
| Thu | Mar 2 | Midterm Exam 1 | ||||
| Fri | Mar 3 | 17 | Reverse Engineering, Lab 3 | GDB Reference | Gdb Exercises | |
| Tue | Mar 7 | 18 | Switches & Jump Tables | |||
| Thu | Mar 9 | 19 | Procedures & Stacks | Ch. 3.7 | x86-procedures Slides | |
| Fri | Mar 10 | 20 | Procedure Memory | |||
| Tue | Mar 14 | No Class: Spring Break | ||||
| Thu | Mar 16 | No Class: Spring Break | ||||
| Fri | Mar 17 | No Class: Spring Break | ||||
| Tue | Mar 21 | No Class: Spring Break | ||||
| Thu | Mar 23 | No Class: Spring Break | ||||
| Fri | Mar 24 | No Class: Spring Break | ||||
| Tue | Mar 28 | 21 | Arrays & Structs | Ch. 3.8-3.9 | x86-structures Slides | |
| Thu | Mar 30 | 22 | Buffer Overflows | Ch. 3.10 | Buffers Slides | |
| Fri | Mar 31 | 23 | Code Injection Attacks, Lab 4 | |||
| Tue | Apr 4 | 24 | Return-Oriented Programming | |||
| Thu | Apr 6 | 25 | Caching & Cache Designs | Ch. 6.1 | Caching Slides | |
| Fri | Apr 7 | 26 | Direct-Mapped Caches | Ch. 6.4 | Caching Exercises | |
| Tue | Apr 11 | 27 | Associative Caches, Lab 5 | Associative Exercises | ||
| Thu | Apr 13 | Midterm Exam 2 | ||||
| Fri | Apr 14 | No Class: Instructor away | ||||
| Tue | Apr 18 | 28 | Locality & The Memory Hierarchy | Ch. 6.2-6.3, 6.5 | ||
| Thu | Apr 20 | 29 | Processes & Exceptional Control Flow | Ch. 8.1-8.2 | Process Slides | |
| Fri | Apr 21 | 30 | Lab 5 Discussion | |||
| Tue | Apr 25 | 31 | Process Control & Shells | Ch. 8.3 | Fork Exercises | |
| Thu | Apr 27 | 32 | Process Control | Ch. 8.4 | ||
| Fri | Apr 28 | 33 | Signals, Lab 6 | Ch. 8.5 | ||
| Tue | May 2 | 34 | Zombies & Reaping | |||
| Thu | May 4 | 35 | Concurrency & Threads | |||
| Fri | May 5 | 36 | Lab 6 Discussion | |||
| Tue | May 9 | 37 | Virtual Memory & Wrap-up | Ch. 9.1 | Vm-wrapup Slides | |