CX202 Syllabus (tentative)

• Week 1 (9/7)
  • Mon: Intro to Course; Intro to Unix
  • Wed: C I
  • Fri: C II


• Week 2 (9/14)
  • Mon: C III, using gdb
    
  • Wed: Inside a Computer
    
  • Fri: Number Systems


• Week 3 (9/21)
  • Mon: Fixed Precision Arithmetic I
  • Wed: Fixed Precision Arithmetic II
  • Fri: Fixed Precision Arithmetic III


• Week 4 (9/28)
  • Mon: Intro to x86-64 (i386) Assembly, Simple Examples
  • Wed: More Examples
  • Fri: Addresses & Variables


• Week 5 (10/5)
  • Mon: Loads & Stores, More Directives
  • Wed: Comparing & Branching
  • Fri: Loops & Selection
    


• Week 6 (10/12)
  • Mon: No Class - Fall Recess 
  • Wed: Why Registers? Review
  • Fri: Exam 
    


• Week 7 (10/19)      
  • Mon: Arrays
  • Wed: Loads & Stores with Updates; The Sieve of Eratosthenes
  • Fri: Subroutines, Stacks, & the Call Frame


• Week 8 (10/26)
  • Mon: Examples, Calling Assembly from C
  • Wed: Calling Assembly from C
  • Fri: Bitwise Operators


• Week 9 (11/2)
  • Mon: Recursion
  • Wed: Performance of Computers
  • Fri: Pipelines


• Week 10 (11/9)
  • Mon: RISC vs CISC
  • Wed: The Role of Compilers & Caches
  • Fri: Program Creation & Assemblers


• Week 11 (11/16)
  • Mon: Designing a Two Pass Assembler
  • Wed: x86-64 Architecture I
  • Fri: x86-64 Architecture II


• Thanksgiving Week (11/23)
  • Mon: History of Computers I
  • Wed: No Class
  • Fri: No Class


• Week 12 (11/30)
  • Mon: History of Computers I
  • Wed: History of Computers II
  • Fri: Conclusion


• Final Exam - ***day May xx from 9am to noon in MBH 505