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	Loops & Optimizations			Asm2 Exercises
Fri	Oct 10		Midterm Exam 1
Mon	Oct 13		No Class: Fall Break
Wed	Oct 15	17	Reverse Engineering, Lab 3	x86-64 Registers		Gdb Exercises
Fri	Oct 17	18	Jump Tables & Procedures	Ch. 3.7	x86-procedures Slides
Mon	Oct 20	19	Procedure Memory			Procedures Exercises
Wed	Oct 22	20	Saved Registers, Arrays	Ch. 3.8	x86-structures Slides
Fri	Oct 24	21	Structs	Ch. 3.9
Mon	Oct 27	22	Buffer Overflows	Ch. 3.10
Wed	Oct 29	23	Code Injection Attacks, Lab 4
Fri	Oct 31	24	Return-Oriented Programming