As the semester progresses, items will be moved from the
planned topics section to the lecture schedule section.
| Date |
Topic |
| 14 Jan |
Administrivia
Prerequisite
number knowledge
Some old exam problems, C vs Java
|
| 28 Jan |
Reading assignment: Chapters 1 to 6 and 13 of
An
Introduction to the C Programming Language and Software Design
C vs Java 1
|
| 4 Feb |
Homework 2
Reading assignment: Chapters 7 and 8 of
An
Introduction to the C Programming Language and Software Design
C vs Java 2
|
| 11 Feb |
Reading assignment: Chapters 9 to 12 of
An
Introduction to the C Programming Language and Software Design,
C vs Java 2
Overflow in Java: The program,
The output in UTF-8,
If UTF-8 fails
Numbers by the book and Randy
and related confusion
Number representation (excel)
|
| 18 Feb |
| 25 Feb |
bitwise operators of C and Java:
&, |, ^, ~,
>>, <<,
>>> (Java only)
Number representation
From last term’s final
|
| 4 Mar |
Computer Engineering 0.01
fast
addition & fast multiplication
(picture)
|
| 18 Mar |
Chapter 3
— Machine-level programming
PIC 32 processor,
Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals,
ARMv8 reference,
Green card and more!
|
| 25 Mar |
Spring 2018 exam
with
answers
&
Fall 2018 exam
with
answers
&
Stuff to master
|
| 1 Apr |
Exam I
|
| 8 Apr |
That exam
Cartoons from 30 years ago
The operating system interface — between ISA and Clib:
Linux
system calls
I/O — read, write, seek,
open;
file system — mkdir, rmdir,
creat, unlink;
processes — fork, execve,
wait, signal, exit;
communication — pipe
Examples from last term: 22 August 2018
|
| 15 Apr |
The required assessment — Searching the file system hierarchy
Clib calls: opendir() & readdir()
Tree walks:
C ftw(),
Python os.walk() &
Java FileVisitor
Book’s VM systems (pp 23, 21, 18-20, 18)
|
| 22 Apr |
Old exam Review:
Fall 2018 &
Spring 2018
Remember the labs
Perhaps there will be a question from last week’s readings?
|
| 29 Apr |
Exam II: The near final
|
| 6 May |
Final Exam: 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM |
