CMSC216: Course Schedule and Materials

Schedule and Course Materials

All materials are subject to change and are marked internally with their latest update time.

Week	Dates		Lecture / Projects	Links	Labs	HW	Solutions	Reading
			Course Mechanics / Code Environment	Slides Video				Code Environment
1	31-Aug	Mon	No Discussion					K&R C book OR
		Tue	Introduction to C	Slides Code	Lab01	HW01	Lab HW	C Refs on Canvas
		Wed	Environment Setup, Lab1	Videos
		Thu	C Basics
2	07-Sep	Mon	Labor Day: No Classes
		Tue	Basic Types, Pointers / Addresses	Slides Code	Lab02	HW02	Lab HW
		Wed	Lab02 Overview	Videos
		Thu	Void Ptrs, Arrays
3	14-Sep	Mon	C I/O Tutorial, Lab03	Prev. Slides	Lab03	HW03	Lab HW
		Tue	Allocation, Valgrind	Continued
		Wed	Valgrind Debugging	Videos
		Thu	Structs, I/O
4	21-Sep	Mon	Project 1 Due: Mon 21-Sep
		Mon	Review Practice 1A SolutionA	Prev Slides	Bonus1A	Review
		Tue	C Wrap-Up	Cont'd				CSAPP: 2.1-2.3
		Wed	Review Practice 1B SolutionB	Videos	Bonus1B
		Thu	Exam 1 Thu 24-Sep (Exam Rules)
5	28-Sep	Mon	GDB Usage and Practice, Lab04		Lab04	HW04		Quick Guide to GDB
		Tue	Integer Encoding, Number Systems	Slides Code
		Wed	Bit Shifting	Videos
		Thu	Two's Complement, Bit Operations	FloatSlides	FloatCode	FloatVid		CSAPP: 3.1-3.5
6	05-Oct	Mon	Assembly Coding Examples, Lab05		Lab05	HW05
		Tue	Assembly Basics, Data movement	Slides Code				CSAPP: 3.6-3.7
		Wed	Assembly Arithmetic	Videos
		Thu	Assembly Arithmetic, Division
		Fri	P2 Due Fri 09-Oct
7	12-Oct	Mon	Fall Break: No Class Mon/Tue 🍂	Survey

		Wed	GDB with Compiled Code, Lab06	Slides Code				CSAPP: 3.8-3.10
		Thu	ASM RIP Compare, Test, Jump
8	19-Oct	Mon	Caller/Callee Save Regs
		Tue	ASM Function Calls
		Wed	Assembly Globals
		Thu	ASM Globals/Data, Buffer Overflow
9	26-Oct	Mon	Assembly Stack Space
		Tue	Assembly Wrap-Up
		Wed	Practice Exams
		Thu	Exceptional Control Flow, Processes					CSAPP: 8
		Fri	P3 Due Fri 30-Oct
10	02-Nov	Mon	Practice Exams
		Tue	Exam 2 Tue 03-Nov
		Wed	Processes, Fork, Wait, Lab08
		Thu	Unix read() / write()					CSAPP: 10
11	09-Nov	Mon	Files Stats via stat()
		Tue	Unix redirection, stat()
		Wed	make and Makefiles
		Thu	Timing, Strides, and Cache					CSAPP: 6
12	16-Nov	Mon	I/O Redirection
		Tue	Memory Pyramid, Matrix layout
		Wed	Cache Analysis
		Thu	Hardware Demo, VirtMem Overview					CSAPP: 9
13	23-Nov	Mon	P4 Due Mon 23-Nov
		Mon	Matrices and Cache Optimization
		Tue	Page Tables, mmap()

	25-Nov	Wed	Thanksgiving Break: Wed-Fri 🦃
14	30-Nov	Mon	Practice Exams
		Tue	Exam 3 Tue 01-Dec
		Wed	Memory Mapped Arrays, Lab11
		Thu	Threads, Mutex, Coordination					CSAPP: 12
15	07-Dec	Mon	Threads
		Tue	Advanced Thread usage
		Wed	Practice Exams
		Thu	Finale / Review
		Fri	P5 Due Fri 11-Dec
	12-Dec	Sat	Reading Day 📚

	16-Dec	Tue	Final Exam
			Tue 15-Dec 6:30pm-8:30pm
			Location To Be Determined
			(Common Final Exam Time)

Textbooks

Required Textbook (CSAPP): Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, Third Edition by R. Bryant, D. O'Hallaron, Pearson, 2016

Optional (K&R C Book): The C Programming Language, Second Edition by Brian Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, Prentice Hall 1988

Other free C references are listed on the course Canvas Site

CMSC216: Course Schedule and Materials

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