Administrative stuff

The instructor for the course this semester is Roger Chamberlain.

Class meetings are generally on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30-4pm.

Reading assignments

• Class introduction.
• Instructions for setting up a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) in the Lopata 401 lab.
• A Linux tutorial put together by Joshua Glatt. Thanks, Joshua.
• A quick and simple vi text editor tutorial.
• The Student Site for the text. There is a bunch of useful information here.
• B&O, chapter 1.
• B&O, chapter 2. You are not responsible for the formal translation functions of section 2.2 (B2U, B2T, etc.) or the 2D figures of section 2.3.
• ASCII chart.
• B&O, chapter 3.
• The GNU Assembly Manual.
• Linux Assembly Page. The first two tutorials are both very good.
• A very good GDB tutorial.
• The GNU make manual.
• A simple make tutorial from the Univ. of Hawaii. Don't forget that we use gcc rather than cc, and have flags -m32 -g.
• B&O, chapter 7.
• B&O, chapter 9, sections 9.9 to 9.11. This material is in chapter 10 in the 1st edition of the text, sections 10.9 to 10.11.
• B&O, chapter 6.
• B&O, chapter 9. This material is in chapter 10 in the 1st edition of the text.
• Bindu Madhavi Padmanabhuni and Hee Beng Kuan Tan, "Defending against Buffer-Overflow Vulnerabilities." IEEE Computer, 44(11):53-60, Nov. 2011.

Lectures

• August 30 - Introduction.
• September 1 - Digital Systems and Information Representation, including an earlier year's lecture, video and 4-up notes. This is chapter 2 material. It also includes some material not in the text.
• September 6 - Numerical Representations, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 2 material. The Q notation material is not in the text.
• September 8 - Hardware and Instruction Set Architecture, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 3 material.
• September 15 - Addressing and Basic Machine Language, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 3 material.
• September 20 - Basic Program Structure (ASM and C), including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 3 material.
• September 22 - Control Flow, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 3 material.
• September 27 - Pointers, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 3 material.
• September 29 - Heterogeneous Data Structures, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 3 material.
• October 4 - Call Return Protocols, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 3 material.
• October 6 - Stack Frame, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 3 material.
• October 11 - Linking, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 7 material.
• October 13 and 18 - Memory Allocation, including an earlier year's video. This is chapter 9 material (chapter 10 in the 1st edition of the text).
• October 20 - Midterm Review.
• November 1 - Memory Allocation and Usage, including an earlier year's video. This is chapter 9 material (chapter 10 in the 1st edition of the text).
• November 3 - Memory, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 6 material.
• November 8 - Cache Memory, including an earlier year's video. This is chapter 6 material.
• November 10 - Virtual Memory, including an earlier year's video. This is chapter 9 material (chapter 10 in the 1st edition of the text).
• November 22 - Intel P6 Virtual Memory System, including an earlier year's video. This is chapter 9 material (chapter 10 in the 1st edition of the text).
• November 29 - Exceptions, including an earlier year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 8 material.
• December 1 - Performance Optimization, including a prior year's lecture, video, and 4-up notes. This is chapter 5 material.
• December 6 - Review.

Assignments

• Lab #1, due Sept. 8, 2011. This is an individual assignment, not to be done in groups. Here is the file lab1.tar, which is required to complete the lab.
• Assignment #1, due Sept. 15, 2011.
• Lab #2, due Sept. 22, 2011. This is an individual assignment, not to be done in groups. Here is the file cse361s_lab2.tar, which is required to complete the lab. For your submission, take a reasonable crack at answering at least questions 1 to 6 at the end of the lab.
• Assignment #2, due Sept. 29, 2011.
• Lab #3, due Oct. 6, 2011. This is an individual assignment, not to be done in groups. Here is the file cse361s_lab3.tar, which is required to complete the lab.
• Lab #4, due Oct. 13, 2011. This lab can be completed as a group, with no more than 2 individuals per group. Here is the file cse361s_lab4.tar, which is required to complete the lab. Shubho put together the following example: jumptable.zip, of a jump table.
• Assignment #3, due Oct. 20, 2011.
• Lab #5, due Nov. 10, 2011. Here is the file bufbomb.c, which is needed as part of the lab. This lab can be completed as a group, with no more than 2 individuals per group. The due date for this lab is extended to Tuesday, Nov. 15.
• Assignment #4, due Nov. 17, 2011. The due date for this assignment is extended to Tuesday, Nov. 22.
• Final Project, due Dec. 11, 2011. Here is the file malloclab-handout.tar, which is required as part of the project. This project can be completed as a group, with no more than 2 individuals per group.

Examinations

There is a midterm examination and a final in this course. The midterm was Thursday, Oct. 27, in class. The final will be Thursday, Dec. 8, in class (this is the last class meeting).

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