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	Jan 21	1	Introduction, Lab 0	Ch. 1 (skim)	Intro Slides
Fri	Jan 23	2	Numbering Systems	Ch. 2.1	Representation Slides	Binary Exercises
Mon	Jan 26		No Class: Weather
Wed	Jan 28	3	Bitwise Operators	Ch. 2.2		Bitwise Exercises
Fri	Jan 30	4	Integer Representations, Lab 1	Ch. 2.3		Representation Exercises
Mon	Feb 2	5	Two's Complement, Bit Puzzles			Bitpuzzle Exercises
Wed	Feb 4	6	Integer Logic & Floating-Point			Logic Exercises
Fri	Feb 6	7	IEEE 754 Representation	Ch. 2.4		Float Exercises
Mon	Feb 9	8	Memory, Endianness, & Pointers	Pointers tutorial	Memory Slides	Pointer Exercises
Wed	Feb 11	9	Pointers and Arrays			Array Exercises
Fri	Feb 13	10	Strings & Memory Layout
Mon	Feb 16	11	Memory Allocation, Lab 2			Allocation Exercises
Wed	Feb 18	12	Debugging, Lab D	GDB Reference
Fri	Feb 20	13	x86-64 ISA, Data Movement	Ch. 3.1-3.4	x86-basics Slides	Mov Exercises
Mon	Feb 23	14	Addressing & Arithmetic	Ch. 3.5		Operand Exercises
Wed	Feb 25	15	Procedures & Condition Codes	Ch. 3.6	x86-control Slides	Asm1 Exercises
Fri	Feb 27	16	Conditionals & Loops
Mon	Mar 2		Midterm Exam 1
Wed	Mar 4	17	Reverse Engineering, Lab 3			Gdb Exercises
Fri	Mar 6	18	Switches & Jump Tables
Mon	Mar 9		No Class: Spring Break
Wed	Mar 11		No Class: Spring Break
Fri	Mar 13		No Class: Spring Break
Mon	Mar 16		No Class: Spring Break
Wed	Mar 18		No Class: Spring Break
Fri	Mar 20		No Class: Spring Break
Mon	Mar 23	19	Procedures & Stacks	Ch. 3.7	x86-procedures Slides
Wed	Mar 25	20	Procedure Memory			Procedures Exercises
Fri	Mar 27	21	Saved Registers & Arrays	Ch. 3.8	x86-structures Slides
Mon	Mar 30	22	Structs	Ch. 3.9		Struct Exercises
Wed	Apr 1	23	Buffer Overflows	Ch. 3.10	Buffers Slides
Fri	Apr 3	24	Code Injection Attacks, Lab 4
Mon	Apr 6	25	Return-Oriented Programming
Wed	Apr 8	26	Caching & Cache Designs	Ch. 6.1
Fri	Apr 10	27	Direct-Mapped Caches	Ch. 6.4
Mon	Apr 13	28	Associative Caches
Wed	Apr 15		Midterm Exam 2
Fri	Apr 17	29	Locality & The Memory Hierarchy, Lab 5	Ch. 6.2-6.3, 6.5
Mon	Apr 20		No Class: Instructor away
Wed	Apr 22	30	Processes & Exceptional Control Flow	Ch. 8.1-8.2
Fri	Apr 24	31	Process Management
Mon	Apr 27	32	Process Control & Shells, Lab 6	Ch. 8.3
Wed	Apr 29	33	Signals & Zombies	Ch. 8.4-8.5
Fri	May 1	34	Reaping & Concurrency
Mon	May 4	35	Threads & Lab 6 Discussion
Wed	May 6	36	Virtual Memory & Wrap-up	Ch. 9.1