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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21 | Course overview | CSAPP 1.1–1.9 | |
| Jan 23 | Data representation, addresses | CSAPP 2.1 | |
| Jan 26 | Integer representation | CSAPP 2.2 | |
| Jan 28 | Integer arithmetic | CSAPP 2.3 | A1 MS1 due |
| Jan 30 | Floating point | CSAPP 2.4 | |
| Feb 2 | Machine-level program representation, addLongs.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.1–3.4 | |
| Feb 4 | ALU operations, arithmetic, alu.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.5 | A1 MS2 due |
| Feb 6 | Control flow, control.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.6 | |
| Feb 9 | Procedures, stacks, control2.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.7 | |
| Feb 11 | Arrays and structs, arraystruct.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.8–3.9 | |
| Feb 13 | Assembly language in class exercise | A2 MS1 due | |
| Feb 16 | Code and data interactions, buffer overflows, buf.zip (example code) | CSAPP 3.10 | |
| Feb 18 | Program optimization (basic techniques): see Canvas for slides | CSAPP 5.1–5.8 | |
| Feb 20 | Pipelines | P&H 4.5–4.7 | A2 MS2 due |
| Feb 23 | Program optimization (ILP, memory, profiling): see Canvas for slides | CSAPP 5.9–5.14 | |
| Feb 25 | Memory hierarchy | CSAPP 6.1–6.3 | |
| Feb 27 | Exam 1 review session | A2 MS3 due | |
| Mar 2 | Exam 1 (in class) | ||
| Mar 4 | Cache policies | CSAPP 6.4 | |
| Mar 6 | Caches and program execution: see Canvas for slides | CSAPP 6.5 | A3 MS1 due |
| Mar 9 | Linking basics, symbols, relocations, executables, loading | CSAPP 7.1–7.9 | |
| Mar 11 | Dynamic linking, shared libraries, PIC, interpositioning, dynload.zip (example code) | CSAPP 7.10–7.15 | |
| Mar 13 | Exceptions, Processes | CSAPP 8.1–8.4, 8.7 | |
| Mar 16–20 | Spring break, no classes | ||
| Mar 23 | Signals, signals.zip (example code) | CSAPP 8.5–8.6 | |
| Mar 25 | Virtual memory | CSAPP 9.1–9.3 | A3 MS2 due |
| Mar 27 | Memory management, address translation | CSAPP 9.4–9.7 | |
| Mar 30 | Memory mapping, dynamic memory allocation | CSAPP 9.8, 9.9, 9.11 | |
| Apr 1 | Exam 2 review session | A3 MS3 due | |
| Apr 3 | Exam 2 (in class) | ||
| Apr 6 | Unix I/O, files | CSAPP 10.1–10.11 | |
| Apr 8 | Networks, Internet Protocol | CSAPP 11.1–11.3 | |
| Apr 10 | Sockets, Application Protocols, sockets.zip (example code) | CSAPP 11.4 | A4 due |
| Apr 13 | Network applications, HTTP, webclient.zip (example code), webserver.zip (example code) | CSAPP 11.4–11.6 | |
| Apr 15 | Concurrency with pthreads, mt_webserver.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.3 | |
| Apr 17 | Thread synchronization, synch.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.4–12.5 | A5 MS1 due |
| Apr 20 | Parallelism, concurrency issues, synch2.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.6–12.7 | |
| Apr 22 | Concurrency with processes, mp_webserver.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.1 | |
| Apr 24 | Concurrency with I/O multiplexing, iomux.zip (example code) | CSAPP 12.2 | |
| Apr 27 | Exam 3 review session | A5 MS2 due | |
| TBD | Exam 3, time/location TBD |