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	Topic	Readings	Slides	Exercises
Wed	Sep 3	1	Introduction, Lab 0	Ch. 1 (skim)	Intro Slides Layers Slides
Fri	Sep 5	2	Numbering Systems	Ch. 2.1	Representation Slides	Binary Exercises
Mon	Sep 8	3	Bitwise Operators	Ch. 2.2		Bitwise Exercises
Wed	Sep 10	4	Integer Representations, Lab 1	Ch. 2.3		Representation Exercises
Fri	Sep 12	5	Two's Complement, Bit Puzzles			Bitpuzzle Exercises
Mon	Sep 15	6	Integer Logic & Floating-Point			Logic Exercises
Wed	Sep 17	7	IEEE 754 Representation	Ch. 2.4		Float Exercises
Fri	Sep 19	8	Memory, Endianness, & Pointers		Memory Slides	Pointer Exercises
Mon	Sep 22	9	Arrays and Strings			Array Exercises
Wed	Sep 24	10	Memory Layout & Allocation
Fri	Sep 26	11	Debugging, Lab 2
Mon	Sep 29	12	x86-64 ISA, Data Movement	Ch. 3.1-3.4
Wed	Oct 1	13	x86 Arithmetic	Ch. 3.5
Fri	Oct 3	14	Procedures & Condition Codes	Ch. 3.6
Mon	Oct 6	15	Conditionals & Loops
Wed	Oct 8	16	Reverse Engineering, Lab 3
Fri	Oct 10		Midterm Exam 1
Mon	Oct 13		No Class: Fall Break