601.229 (F23): Schedule
This page lists topics, readings, and has links to lecture slides. It also lists assignment due dates. Items in gray italic are tentative.
This schedule could change! Changes to the schedule will be announced in class and/or on Courselore.
Readings are from:
- CSAPP: Bryant and O’Hallaron, Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective, 3rd ed.
- P&H: Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design (MIPS edition)
CSAPP is by far the more important of the two textbooks.
Important: do the reading before you come to class.
The links to slides are provided for reference. In general, there is no guarantee that they will be posted before class, or that their content will not change.
| Date | Topic/Slides | Reading | Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28 | Course overview, binary data representation review | CSAPP 1.1–1.9 | |
| Aug 30 | Data representation, addresses | CSAPP 2.1 | |
| Sep 1 | Integer representation | CSAPP 2.2 | |
| Sep 4 | Labor Day, no class | ||
| Sep 6 | Integer arithmetic | CSAPP 2.3 | A1 MS1 due |
| Sep 8 | Floating point | CSAPP 2.4 | |
| Sep 11 | Machine-level program representation | CSAPP 3.1–3.4 | |
| Sep 13 | ALU operations, arithmetic, alu.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.5 | A1 MS2 due |
| Sep 15 | Control flow, control.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.6 | |
| Sep 18 | Procedures, stacks, control2.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.7 | |
| Sep 20 | Arrays and structs, arraystruct.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.8–3.9 | |
| Sep 22 | Assembly language in class exercise | ||
| Sep 25 | Code and data interactions, buffer overflows, buf.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.10 | A2 MS1 due |
| Sep 27 | Program optimization (basic techniques): see Canvas for slides | CSAPP 5.1–5.8 | |
| Sep 29 | Exam 1 review session | ||
| Oct 2 | Exam 1 (in class) | ||
| Oct 4 | Pipelines | P&H 4.5–4.7 | A2 MS2 due Thurs 10/5 |
| Oct 6 | Program optimization (ILP, memory, profiling): see Canvas for slides | CSAPP 5.9–5.14 | |
| Oct 9 | Memory hierarchy | CSAPP 6.1–6.3 | |
| Oct 11 | Cache policies | CSAPP 6.4 | A3 MS1 due |
| Oct 13 | Caches and program execution: see Canvas for slides | CSAPP 6.5 | |
| Oct 16 | Linking basics, symbols, relocations, executables, loading | CSAPP 7.1–7.9 | |
| Oct 18 | Dynamic linking, shared libraries, PIC, interpositioning, dynload.zip (example code) | CSAPP 7.10–7.15 | |
| Oct 20 | Fall break, no class | ||
| Oct 23 | Exceptions, Processes | CSAPP 8.1–8.4, 8.7 | |
| Oct 25 | Signals, signals.zip (example code) | CSAPP 8.5–8.6 | A3 MS2 due |
| Oct 27 | Virtual memory | CSAPP 9.1–9.3 | |
| Oct 30 | Memory management, address translation | CSAPP 9.4–9.7 | |
| Nov 1 | Memory mapping, dynamic memory allocation | CSAPP 9.8, 9.9, 9.11 | A3 MS3 due |
| Nov 3 | Exam 2 review session | ||
| Nov 6 | Exam 2 (in class) | ||
| Nov 8 | Unix I/O, files | CSAPP 10.1–10.11 | |
| Nov 10 | Networks, Internet Protocol | CSAPP 11.1–11.3 | A4 due |
| Nov 13 | Sockets, Application Protocols, sockets.zip (example code) | CSAPP 11.4 | |
| Nov 15 | Network applications, HTTP, webclient.zip (example code), webserver.zip (example code) | CSAPP 11.4–11.6 | |
| Nov 17 | Concurrency with pthreads, mt_webserver.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.3 | |
| Nov 20–24 | Fall recess, no class | ||
| Nov 27 | Thread synchronization, synch.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.4–12.5 | |
| Nov 29 | Parallelism, concurrency issues, synch2.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.6–12.7 | A5 MS1 due |
| Dec 1 | Concurrency with processes, mp_webserver.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.1 | |
| Dec 4 | Concurrency with I/O multiplexing, iomux.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.2 | |
| Dec 6 | Bonus topics | ||
| Dec 8 | Exam 3 review session | A5 MS2 due | |
| Dec 20 | Exam 3 (2pm, in Remsen 1) |