CSC231 Schedule Fall 2017

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 11:33, 11 July 2017 (EDT)

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Week 1 Sept. 8

Topics: Introduction	Lab/Hw	Reading
Friday Syllabus Class accounts: run the command setup231.sh at the command line the first time you login to your account. The main players for this semester: PC Processor Memory Disk First program in assembly: recognizing the different elements of a program Structure Presentation Documentation Skeleton program Hello World! on Linux Linux command line, Bash shell. Some essential commands. Emacs editor.		Reading Chapter 1 in the Art of Assembly. Also Chapter 3, Sections 0 to 3.1.2. Sections 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, and 1.3.5 in Carter's PC Assembly Language. Note, Carter uses 1A92h to represent a hexadecimal number. I prefer 0x1A92.

 

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Week 2 Sept. 11

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Emacs Lab The assembly process Declaring strings, and their location in memory Wednesday Lab #1 on printing strings and solution programs Friday Comments on solution programs for Wednesday's lab Using hexdump and looking at the contents of binary files Lab #1b TAs for the class: Ji Won, Artemis, Emma, Farida, Prayasha slides	Emacs Lab Lab #1 Lab #1b on using bash and working with directories	Reading Chapter 1 in the Art of Assembly. Also Chapter 3, Sections 0 to 3.1.2. Sections 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, and 1.3.5 in Carter's PC Assembly Language. Note, Carter uses 1A92h to represent a hexadecimal number. I prefer 0x1A92.

 

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Week 3 Sept. 18

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Review The mov and add instructions Integers (32-bit format) Wednesday Moving data around int x=3, x=5, sum; sum = x+y; slides Friday Bash lab #2: history, pushd, popd, cat, less, head, tail, grep	Homework #1, due 9/25 at 11:55 p.m. and Solution programs Lab #2	Read Chapter 4 Section 3 on the Mov Instruction. Read Section 4.1.5 on the General Purpose registers.

 

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Week 4 Sept. 25

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday How integers are stored in memory Endianness Pentium Data Registers declaring variables with db, dw, dd Exercises, exercises, exercises! Wednesday Operating on bytes, words, and double-words byte-, word-, and doubleword-registers and variables Exercises, exercises, exercises Simple Computer Simulator (SCS) slides Friday Bash Lab #3: Manual pages, and pipes	Homework 2, due 10/2/2017 at 11:55 p.m.	Read Chapter 4 Section 3 on the Mov Instruction. Read Section 4.1.5 on the General Purpose registers.

 

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Week 5 Oct. 2

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Number conversion Exercises (see number-conversion video for context) INC, DEC, MUL, and DIV Make sure you answer the quiz on Moodle, which covers the two videos. The quiz closes on 10/4/17 at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday More arithmetic operations Following the execution of a program with the Simple Computer Simulator. slides Friday Linux Lab #4: Vi text editor, Redirection of stdin, stderr, and stdout	Homework 3, due 10/11/17, at 11:55 p.m.	Section 6.5.1.2 in Hall's Art of Assembly Sections 1.5 an 1.6 in Hall's Art of Assembly Section 6.5.6 and 6.5.7 on MUL and DIV in Hall's text. Skip the parts about IMUL, and IDIV which require knowledge of signed numbers. Also skip the part about the decimal adjust and other instructions in these sections. For next week, prepare by reading Section 1.7

 

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Week 6 Oct. 9

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Fall Break Wednesday Simple Computer Simulator Exercises with mul/div Logic Instructions (AND, OR, NOT, XOR) Slides printing bytes in decimal Friday the 13! Bash Lab #5		Read Section 1.5 on Logical Operations on Bits Read Sections 1.7 and 1.8 on signed numbers.

 

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Week 7 Oct. 16

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Binary addition Binary adder with logic gates Wednesday Negative numbers Exercises on Signed Numbers Sample midterm questions to get a feel for the midterm next week... Slides Friday Bash lab #6: Bash scripts, variables, arithmetic in bash.	Homework 4, due 10/23, and solution programs	Read Section 1.5 on Logical Operations on Bits Read Sections 1.7 and 1.8 on signed numbers.

 

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Week 8 Oct. 23

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Exercises on signed numbers The LOOP instruction Slides Wednesday: In-Class Midterm exam. Closed books, closed notes, closed computers.. Solutions to the Midterm problems Friday Bash Lab #7: If statements		The LOOP instruction

 

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Week 9 Oct. 30

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Back to the LOOP instruction Indirect addressing & addressing modes Wednesday Addressing modes Slides Friday Bash lab #8 + video introduction: Bash functions	Homework #5, due 11/6/2017 at 11:55 p.m. Solution programs for Homework #5	The Loop Instruction (Section 6.9.6) The Register Indirect addressing mode (Section 4.6.2.2) Other Addressing modes (up to Section 4.6.2.5)

 

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Week 10 Nov. 6

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Introduction to the Game of Life Wednesday Continue with game of life Flags register Jumps and Conditional Jumps Slides Friday C Tutorial #1	Homework #6, due Monday Nov 13 at 11:55 p.m. Solution assembly program.	Unconditional Jump The Flags Register Conditional Jumps CMP instruction

 

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Week 11 Nov. 13

Topics: Functions	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Continue with conditional jumps The Stack segment Push & Pop instructions Wednesday Functions Examples of assembly code. Slides Friday C Tutorial #2	Homework #7, due 11/20/17 11/27/17 at 11:55 p.m. Solution programs	Functions. Functions are also called procedures when dealing with assembly. You'll find this term used in Randy Hyde's documentation. Also, Hydes uses the proc and endp directives to define functions, which is fine. We won't in this class. Functions work just as well without!

 

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Week 12 Nov. 20

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday We continue with functions and passing parameters via the stack Slides Wednesday/Friday THANKSGIVING BREAK	No homework assignment this week...

 

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Week 13 Nov. 27

Topics: Recursion	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Studying a recursive Factorial function: Python, Java, Assembly, stack frame, stack overflow. Wednesday Exploring various issues related to recursion Slides Friday C Tutorial #3	Homework #8, due 12/4/17 @ 11:55 p.m. Solution programs and answers for Homework #8	Recursion chapter in Randy Hall's Art of Assembly. Hall uses 16-bit registers (ax, bx, bp, etc...) but the reasoning is the same as for 32-bit registers.

 

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Week 14 Dec. 4

Topics: Fixed and Floating-Point Numbers	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Fixed-Point Numbers, U(a,b), and A(a, b) Wednesday The Floating-point format Slides Friday C Tutorial #4	Homework 9 is a make-up homework that can be used to replace the grade of Homework 1 to Homework 8. Solution programs for Homework 9.	Fixed and Floating-point number formats

 

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Week 15 Dec. 11

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday, Wednesday Floating Point operations Slides	Final take-home exam is given out on Wednesday. Due a week later.	Fixed and Floating-point number formats