This is a very sketchy schedule. It is my plan to cover all chapters of the Stephen Prata text There is a spreadsheet containing a tentative plan for acheiving this goal. Go ahead and start reading!
In the "Reading" column, SP refers to the Stephen Prata text and PP refers to the Patt and Patel text.
| Date | Topic | Reading & Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18 | Introduction to ECE 209 | SP chap 1, PPT, PDF | |
| Aug 20 | Introduction to C | SP chap 2, PPT, PDF | |
| Aug 25 | Data in C | SP chap 3, PPT | |
| Aug 25 | Problem Session at 6:00 pm | ||
| Aug 27 | Strings and I/O | SP chap 4, PPT, ZIP, PPT 2 | |
| Sept 1 | Expressions | SP chap 5, PPT | |
| Sept 3 | Loops | SP chap 6, PPT | |
| Sept 8 | Conditionals | SP chap 7, PPT | |
| Sept 8 | Problem Session at 6:00 pm | ||
| Sept 10 | More I/O | SP chap 8, PPT 1, PPT 2, HTML | |
| Sept 15 | Functions | SP chap 9, Functions | |
| Sept 15 | Problem Session at 6:00 pm | ||
| Sept 17 | Arrays and pointers | Stages for assignment 2, SP chap 10, Arrays | |
| Sept 22 | |||
| Sept 22 | Problem Session at 6:00 pm | ||
| Sept 24 | Exam 1 review | SP chapters 1 to 8 | |
| Sept 29 | Exam 1: Chapters 1 to 8 | ||
| Oct 1 | Strings and variable class | SP chap 11, SP chap 12, Strings, Variables | |
| Oct 6 | |||
| Oct 6 | Problem Session at 6:00 pm | ||
| Oct 8 | LC3 variable allocation | PP chap 12, LC-3 translation | |
| Oct 15 | LC3 code translation | ||
| Oct 20 | LC3 procedure calls | ||
| Oct 20 | Problem Session at 6:00 pm | ||
| Oct 22 | Dynamic memory | SP chap 12, Heap | |
| Oct 27 | I/O | SP chap 13, Files | |
| Oct 27 | Problem Session at 6:00 pm | ||
| Oct 29 | I/O and structures | SP chap 13, SP chap 14, Files, Structures, Other Chap 14 | |
| Nov 3 | |||
| Nov 5 | Bits and CPP | SP chap 15, SP chap 16, Bits in C, C preprocessor | |
| Nov 10 | Exam 2 review | SP chapters 1 to 12 | |
| Nov 12 | Exam 2 postponed for motors presentation! | ||
| Nov 17 | Exam 2: Chapters 1 to 12 | ||
| Nov 19 | Data representation | SP chapter 17, RL Assignment Assignment 7A, Assignment 7B, Assignment 7C, Assignment 7D, RLparse.h, RLparse.c RLvartab.h, RLvartab.c, RLexec.h, RLexec.c | |
| Nov 24 | |||
| Dec 1 | |||
| Dec 3 | Final Exam review | SP | |
| Dec 10 | Final exam at 3:00 in Robinson 217 | ||