CSC231 Schedule Spring 2017

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 10:37, 2 December 2016 (EST)

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Home | Syllabus | Schedule | Links & Resources

 

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Week 1 Jan 26, 27

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Friday Syllabus Class accounts 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 (and its Mac version) 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 Jan 31, Feb 2

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Emacs Lab The assembly process Declaring strings, and their location in memory Lab #1 slides (pdf) Friday: Linux: Basic navigation commands, and Files Tutorial: Basic Navigation Commands Tutorial: Linux Files

 

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Week 3 Feb 7, 9

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: More about Files

 

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Week 4 Feb 14, 16

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Manual Pages and File Manipulation

 

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Week 5 Feb 21

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed" Friday: Linux: Vi text editor

 

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Week 6 Feb 28, Mar 2

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Wildcards and Permissions

 

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Week 7 Mar 7, 9

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Filters

SPRING BREAK

 

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Week 8 Mar 21, 23

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Grep and Regular Expressions

 

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Week 9 Mar 28, 30

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Piping and Redirection. Redirecting to/from stdout and stderr

 

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Week 10 Apr 4, 6

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Process Management

 

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Week 11 Apr 11, 13

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Scripting I

 

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Week 12 Apr 18, 20

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Scripting 2. Variables.

 

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Week 13 Apr 25, 27

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Linux tips & tricks 1

 

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Week 14 May 2, 4

Topics: Introduction, Boolean Functions, First Lab.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Mon/Wed Friday: Linux: Linux tips & tricks 2

Links_and_Resources

Pipelines, Branch Prediction, Hyper-Threading

• The 90-minute guide to Modern Microprocessors, a high-level coverage of pipelines, branch prediction, instruction parallelism, and hyper-threading.

Bash Shell & Linux Resources

• Ryan's Linux Tutorials
• Tutorial from the University of Surrey, UK