Date | Topic (Reading) | Assignment |
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Week 1 |
Introduction, The C Programming Language (K/R Ch 1-4) | A1 |
The C Library, GDB (B/O Ch1, Ch 7, K/R Ch 7) | ||
Week 2 |
Computer System Organization (B/O Ch
7) Data Representation Pt #1 (B/O Ch 2.1-2.2) |
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Data Representation Pt #1 (cont) | A1 Due |
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Week 3 |
Data Representation Pt #2 (floating point) |
A2 |
Arithmetic operations (B/O Ch 2.3-2.5) |
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Week 4 |
x86 Basics (B/O Ch 3.1-3.5) | |
Midterm Exam (K/R Ch 1-4,7, B/O Ch 1-2,7) | Sample |
Sample
solution | Practice
| Practice site A2 Due |
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Week 5 |
x86 Control Flow (B/O Ch 3.6) | MetaCTF. Navigation instructions here |
x86 Procedures (B/O Ch 3.7, K/R Ch. 5.11-5.12) | ||
Week 6 |
x86 Stack Overflow (B/O Ch 3.10) | |
x86 Arrays (B/O Ch. 3.8 K&R Ch. 5.1-5.10) | ||
Week 7 |
x86 Structures, Embedded Assembly, ARM (B/O Ch. 3.9, K&R Ch 6) | |
Program optimization (B/O Ch 5) | Final project: MetaCTF level. Sample source |
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Week 8 |
Program optimization - SIMD (B/O Ch 3.11) | A3 |
Cache memories (B/O Ch 6) | ||
Week 9 |
Cache memories | A4 A3 Due |
No class (Thanksgiving) |
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Week 10 |
Exceptional control flow (B/O Ch 8) | A4 Due |
Exceptional control flow, Final project CTF |
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Extra |
Additional Topics, Final exam review |
Practice problems
and site FinalReviewQs | FinalReviewSolutions | Screencast |
Finals |
Final
Exam (K/R Ch 5,6, B/O Ch 3, 5, 6, 8) Monday 12/3 (10:15am-12:05pm) |
Final project due (12/7 at 11:30pm) Submission instructions |
A1 (C/libc) | 5% |
A2 (bit ops/floats) | 10% |
A3 (asm,SIMD) | 5% |
A4 (caching) | 5% |
MetaCTF | 15% |
Final project | 10% |
Midterm | 15% |
Final | 15% |
Kata | 20% |