Topics Covered by Day

August

• 25: intro, why systems, leaky abstractions

  27: bits, bytes, base 2, 10, 16 conversions, << >> ~ | & ^

September

• 1: 2s complement, ring, addition, subtraction, negation, intro to multiplication

  3: review 2s complement, floats

• 8: review floats, intro to assembly

  10: x86 history, risc vs cisc, registers, operands, how to read assembly

• 15: function calls and stack frames, intro to bomb lab

  17: setting up ssh, memory modes, intro to branches, cmp, test

• 22: printf, scanf, for, while loops as do while loops, switch statements

  24: flags and conditional branches

• 29: structs, struct example

October

• 1: cache, direct mapped, fully associate, and set associate, intro to buffer lab

• 6: cache write policies, endianness, cache example with nested loops

  8: buffer lab questions, cache hit and miss ratios

• 13: midterm

• 20: exceptional control flow: interrupts, faults, traps, aborts, processes, system calls

  22: intro to shell lab, fork, exec, process ids, process group ids, signals, foreground vs background

• 27: intro to git, more on fork, exec, pids, process groups, signals, etc.

  29: waitpid example, argc, argv, exec

November

• 3: signals and sleep, signal handler example, sscanf

  5: midterm answers, setjmp, longjmp

• 10: intro to malloc lab (Bart)

  12: virtual memory, pages, page tables, TLB, segments, copy-on-write

• 19: upper-division CS classes discussion

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