Location: 2-2:50pm @ Taylor 200
Instructor: Dr. Heather Guarnera; office hours in Taylor 303 @ MW 3-4pm, F 11am-12pm, or by appointment
Q&A: Piazza
Syllabus: can be found here

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This schedule is subject to change. Resources correspond to activities or materials covered during class on the listed day. You are expected to read the assigned chapters (♢) before class on the listed day. Homework assignments (☆) are listed on the day they are assigned; unless otherwise stated, homework is due before the next class begins.

Date	Day	Topic	Resources	Assignments
8/25	W	Syllabus; intro	[pptx]	☆ HW00: Environment setup
8/27	F	Binary, hexademical, and decimal numbers	♢ Appendix A.1-3 [pptx]	☆ HW01: Binary and hexademical
8/30	M	Negative numbers	♢ Appendix A.4-5 [pptx]	☆ HW02: Two's complement
9/1	W	Floating point numbers	♢ Appendix B [pptx] floating_point.c	☆ HW03: Floating point [git-keeper]
9/3	F	IEEE 754	♢ Ch. 1 (skimming 1.2) [pptx] [in-class examples]	☆ HW04: More floating point [due Wed 9/8]
9/6	M	IEEE 754 (continued)
9/8	W	Processors	♢ Ch 2.1 [pptx]	☆ HW05: Crossword on Ch 1 & 2.1
9/10	F	Primary Memory	♢ Ch 2.2 [pptx]	☆ HW06: CPU and memory [git-keeper]
9/13	M	Bitwise operators	♢ Ch 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.6 [pptx] bit_shifting.c	☆ HW07: Bit masking [git-keeper]
9/15	W	Secondary Memory	[pptx]	☆ HW08: Crossword Ch 2.2 & 2.3
9/17	F	Memory; IO	♢ Ch 2.4.1, 2.4.2 [pptx] memory_addresses.c
9/20	M	Review Day
9/22	W	EXAM 1	Topics
9/24	F	Gates and boolean algebra	♢ Ch 3.1 [pptx]	☆ HW09: Digital logic level intro [git-keeper]
9/27	M	Gates and boolean algebra	[pptx] [practice]	☆ HW10: Attend CS IS Orals
9/28	T	Attend CS IS Orals (Teams 11am-12:15pm)
9/29	W	Circuits	♢ Ch 3.2 [pptx]	☆ HW11: Adder circuit
9/30	R	Attend CS IS Orals (Teams 11am-12:15pm)
10/1	F	Post-Exam Review
10/4	M	Circuits	[pptx]	☆ HW12: Circuits [git-keeper]
10/6	W	Memory	♢ Ch 3.3 [pptx] [practice] 1bit_memories.circ	☆ HW13: Simple Memory [git-keeper]
10/8	F	Memory
10/11	M	Fall break - no class
10/13	W	Fall break - no class
10/15	F	Fall break - no class
10/18	M	Microarchitecture	♢ Ch 4.1 [pptx]
10/20	W	IJVM	♢ Ch 4.2 [pptx] [practice]	HW14: IJVM intro
10/22	F	Implementation of IJVM	♢ Ch 4.3 [pptx] add_procedure.jas	HW15: Mic1MMV intro
10/25	M	ISA Overview	♢ Ch 5.1 [pptx] alignment.c	HW16: ISA overview
10/27	W	ISA Data Types & Instruction Formats	♢ Ch 5.2, 5.3 [pptx] [practice]	HW17: data types & instruction formats
10/29	F	ISA Practice Review
11/1	M	MIPS	[pptx] MIPS Reference Card	HW18: MIPS intro
11/3	W	MIPS branching and loops	mips-branching1.c mips-branching1.s mips-loops1.c mips-loops1.s	HW19: MIPS loops
11/5	F	MIPS functions	compute_expression.s power_of_2_function.s factorial.s	Project: MIPS functions
11/8	M	Kahoot Review
11/10	W	EXAM 2	Topics Reference Provided During Exam
11/12	F	OS: Virtual Memory	♢ Ch 6.1 - 6.1.3 [pptx]	☆ HW20: Crossword on Ch 6.1
11/15	M	Page Replacement Policies	♢ Ch 6.1.4 - 6.1.7 [pptx] [practice]	☆ HW21: Memory intro
11/17	W	Page Replacement Policies; due: MIPS functions project	♢ Ch 6.2, 6.3	☆ HW22: Installing Linux
11/19	F	Segmentation; Files	files.c	☆ HW23: Filesystems [git-keeper]
11/22	M	Review C code; Work on project; VM questions	general.c arrays.c malloc.c	☆ Project 2: Pages
11/24	W	Thanksgiving break - no class
11/26	F	Thanksgiving break - no class
11/29	M	Exam 2 Review;
12/1	W	File systems; due: part of Pages project	[pptx] bashcrawl [practice]
12/3	F	Pages review; Q&A
12/6	M	Parallel intro	♢ Ch 6.4 [pptx] processes.c shared_memory.c shared_memory_semaphore.c
12/8	W	More parallelism; internship experiences;
12/10	F	Kahoot Review; due: Pages project
12/13		Exam Week: Thurs 12/16 @ 4-6:30pm	Topics