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			Allocation Exercises
Fri	Sep 26	11	Debugging, Lab 2
Mon	Sep 29	12	Debugging Practice	GDB Reference		Debugging Exercises (mini-lab)
Wed	Oct 1	13	x86-64 ISA, Data Movement	Ch. 3.1-3.4	x86-basics Slides	Mov Exercises
Fri	Oct 3	14	Addressing & Arithmetic	Ch. 3.5		Operand Exercises
Mon	Oct 6	15	Procedures & Condition Codes	Ch. 3.6	x86-control Slides	Asm1 Exercises
Wed	Oct 8	16	Conditionals & Loops	x86-64 Registers		Asm2 Exercises
Fri	Oct 10		Midterm Exam 1
Mon	Oct 13		No Class: Fall Break
Wed	Oct 15	17	Reverse Engineering, Lab 3			Gdb Exercises
Fri	Oct 17	18	Switches & Jump Tables
Mon	Oct 20	19	Procedures & Stacks	Ch. 3.7	x86-procedures Slides	Procedures Exercises
Wed	Oct 22	20	Stack Vars & Saved Registers
Fri	Oct 24	21	Arrays & Structs	Ch. 3.8-3.9	x86-structures Slides	Struct Exercises
Mon	Oct 27	22	Buffer Overflows	Ch. 3.10	Buffers Slides
Wed	Oct 29	23	Code Injection Attacks, Lab 4			Overflow Exercises
Fri	Oct 31	24	Return-Oriented Programming
Mon	Nov 3	25	Caching & Cache Designs	Ch. 6.1	Caching Slides	Caching Exercises
Wed	Nov 5	26	Direct-Mapped Caches	Ch. 6.4		Direct Exercises
Fri	Nov 7	27	Associative Caches, Lab 5			Associative Exercises
Mon	Nov 10	28	Locality & The Memory Hierarchy	Ch. 6.2-6.3, 6.5
Wed	Nov 12		Midterm Exam 2
Fri	Nov 14	29	Processes & Exceptional Control Flow	Ch. 8.1-8.2
Mon	Nov 17	30	Process Management
Wed	Nov 19	31	Lab 5 Discussion
Fri	Nov 21	32	Process Control & Shells	Ch. 8.3
Mon	Nov 24		No Class: Thanksgiving Break
Wed	Nov 26		No Class: Thanksgiving Break
Fri	Nov 28		No Class: Thanksgiving Break
Mon	Dec 1	33	Signals & Zombies, Lab 6	Ch. 8.4-8.5
Wed	Dec 3	34	Reaping & Concurrency
Fri	Dec 5	35	Threads & Lab 6 Discussion
Mon	Dec 8	36	Virtual Memory	Ch. 9.1
Wed	Dec 10	37	Virtual Memory
Fri	Dec 12	38	Beyond 2330 & Wrap-up