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Schedule and Lecture Notes

Click the title of a lecture to view the page with lecture notes. Reading assignments from Bryant & O'Hallaron are in purple.
Recommended practice problems are in green. Associated practice problems are best done after lecture.

Jump to: September | October | November | December

 
 

August-September 2023

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
27 28

Lecture 1: Bits and Bytes

Reading: Ch. 1, 2.1

Practice problems: 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16


29 30

Lecture 2: Integers I

Reading: Ch 2.2

Practice problems: 2.17, 2.19, 2.23-2.26


31 1

Lab 1: Bits

 2
3

 4

Labor day


 5

 6

Lecture 3: Integers II

Reading: 2.3

Practice problems: 2.28, 2.29, 2.32, 2.33, 2.43, 2.44


7

 8

 9
10

 11

Quiz 1 due: Lec 1-3

Lecture 4: Floats

Reading: 2.4-2.5

Practice problems: 2.45, 2.47, 2.54


12

 13

Lecture 5: Machine Prog. I
(basics and moving data)

Reading: Ch. 3 intro, 3.2-3.4

Practice problems: 3.1, 3.4, 3.5


14

 15

Lab 1 due

Lab 2: Debugger


 16
17

 18

Lecture 6: Machine Prog. II
(arithmetic ops and control flow)

Reading: Ch. 3.5-3.6

Practice problems: 3.6, 3.11A, 3.18, 3.26


19

 20

Lecture 7: Machine Prog. III
(procedures, stack)

Reading: Ch. 3.7

Practice problems: 3.32, 3.34-3.35


21

 22

Lab 2 due

Lab 3: Bomb


 23
24

 25

Quiz 2 due: Lec 4-7

Lecture 8: Machine Prog. IV
(arrays, structs)

Reading: Ch. 3.8-3.9

Practice problems: 3.36-3.38, 3.41, 3.44


26

 27

Lecture 9: Machine Prog. V
(security)

Reading: Ch. 3.10.3-3.10.4

Practice problems: 3.46-3.48


28

 29

 30

 
 

October 2023

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1

 2

Lecture 10: Processes

Reading: Ch. 8.1-8.4

Practice problems: 8.1-8.4


3

 4

Lecture 11: Signals, ECP, Shells
Shell Practice

Reading: Ch. 8.1, 8.5


5

 6

Lab 3 due

Lab 4: Attack


 7
8

 9

Quiz 3 due: Lec 8-11

Lecture 12: Concurrency I

Reading: Ch. 12.3-12.5.1

Practice problems: 12.7-12.8


10

 11

Lecture 13: Concurrency II

Reading: Ch. 12.5.2-4, 12.7

Practice problems: 12.10, 12.13, 12.15


12

 13

 14
15

 16

Fall Break


 17

 18

Lecture 14: Midterm review

Midterm available 5pm


 19

 20

Lab 4 due

Lab 5: Ringbuffer


 21
22

 23

Lecture 15: I/O

Reading: Ch. 10.1-10.4, skim 10.5-10.7, 10.8-10.12

Practice problems: 10.1-10.3,10.5


24
 25

Midterm due beginning of class


Lecture 16: I/O cntd, Fgrep


26

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 28
29 30

Quiz 4 due: Lec 12-13, 15-16

Lecture 17: Dynamic Memory Allocation

Reading: 9.9

Practice problems: 9.6, 9.7


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November 2023

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday



1

Lecture 18: Hard Disk Drives and File Systems

Reading: 6.1.2

Practice problems: 6.3


2 3

Lab 5 due

Lab 6: Fgrep


 4
5

 6

Lecture 19: Memory Hierarchy, Caches I

Reading: 6.2-6.3

Practice problems: 6.7


7

 8

Lecture 20: Caches II

Reading: 6.4-6.7

Practice problems: 6.8-6.20


9

 10

 11
12

 13

Quiz 5 due: Lec 17-20

Lecture 21: Caches III

Reading: Blocking


14

 15

Lecture 22: Virtual Memory I

Reading: Ch 9.1-9.5

Practice problems: 9.1-9.2


16

 17

Lab 6 due

Lab 7: Cache


 18
19

 20

Lecture 23: Virtual Memory II


21

 22

Thanksgiving break


 23

 24

 25
26

 27

Lecture 24: Performance I

Reading: Ch. 5.1-5.6, 4.1-4.4

Practice problems: 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 4.28


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Lecture 25: Performance II

Reading: Ch. 5.7-5.10


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December 2023

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday




1

 2
3

 4

Quiz 6 due: Lec 21-23

No class


 5

 6

Lecture 26: Review

7

 8

Lab 7 due



Final exam available 		9
10

 11

 12

 13

 14

12pm: Final exam due


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