Lesson Content (Lecture Slides, etc.)

Week 1

• Lecture 1: Course Introduction, Bits and Ints (PDF)

Week 2

• Lecture 2: Integers Representation (PDF)
  • Interactive Decimal Counter
• Lecture 3: Integers — Extension, Truncation, Overflow (PDF)

Week 3

• Lecture 4: Floating Point Representation [Handout] (PDF)
  • Note: This was an “unplugged” lesson without pre-made slides.
• Lecture 5: Machine Programming mov Instruction [Handout] (PDF)
  • Note: This was an “unplugged” lesson without pre-made slides, however, Prof. Melissa has made some lecture notes to match what we did in class.
  • Lecture Notes — maybe the notes you wish you'd taken in class!

Week 4

• Lecture 6: Machine Programming Control Flow (PDF)
• Lecture 7: Machine Programming Procedures [Handout] (PDF)
  • Note: This was an “unplugged” lesson without pre-made slides
  • Simulation of the fact function — a demo that simulates the execution of the fact function from this lecture, showing the stack and register state at each step.

Week 5

• Lecture 8: Machine Programming Data (PDF)
• Lecture 9: Processes (PDF)

Week 6

• Lecture 10: Threads (PDF)
• Lecture 11: Semaphores (PDF)

Week 7

• Lecture 12: Malloc (PDF)
  • Malloc Visualizer — a demo that simulates the behavior of malloc and free, showing the state of the heap and free list at each step.
• Lecture 13: Exceptional Control Flow.
  • Interrupts
  • Signals

Week 8

• Lecture 14: Networking (PDF)
  • Source code for class demos

Week 9

• Lecture 15: Midterm Review
  • This was an “unplugged” lesson without premade slides.
  • The exams page provides access to the midterm exam itself.
• Lecture 16: Security (PDF)

Week 10

• Lecture 17: I/O (PDF)
• Lecture 18: Pipes, Filters, and Writing Your Own
  • This was an "unplugged" lesson without premade slides, however, Prof. Melissa has made some lecture notes to match what we did in class.
  • Lecture Notes — what probably happened in class.

Week 11

• Lecture 19: Storage
• Lecture 20: Memory Hierarchy and Caches [Part 1] (PDF)

Week 12

• Lecture 21: Memory Hierarchy and Caches [Part 2]
  • This was an "unplugged" lesson without premade slides.
  • Cache Simulator — a demo that simulates the behavior of a CPU cache, showing hits and misses for different access patterns.
  • Notes on Caches — what probably happened in class.
  • Address decoder — a demo that shows how memory addresses are decomposed into tag, set index, and block offset fields for a cache.
• Lecture 22: Virtual Memory Concepts (PDF)

Class Participation Self-Assessment

• Class Participation Self-Assessment

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