CSC231 Schedule 2012

--D. Thiebaut 11:15, 24 August 2012 (EDT)

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Misc. Links & Information

• Things to remember while programming in assembly
• The NASM Manual (http://alien.dowling.edu/~rohit/nasmdoc0.html)
• Paul Carter's assembly language tutorial. Paul Carter's page can be found at http://www.drpaulcarter.com/.
• The Art of Assembly Language. It assumes a different assembler, and hence a different syntax, but has a lot of very good information.

Weekly Schedule

Week	Topics	Reading
Week 1 9/7	Friday Syllabus Class accounts The main players for this semester: PC Processor Memory Disk First program in assembly: recognize the different elements: Structure Presentation Documentation Skeleton program Hello World! on Linux (and its Mac version) Homework #1 Due Monday 9/10/12, 11:00 a.m.	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.
Week 2 9/10	Monday Review of Hello World Q&A Mini Lab #1 to get everybody up to speed. Wednesday Printing a box (solution for Mini Lab #1) solution programs and discussion 2 possible solutions Generating a listing with "-l" (minus ell) Hexadecimal listing of the memory contents Friday Hexdump of the executable Counter-intuitive results (size of the executables vs. size of the code + data) Exercise: recreating a program from its hexdump Mini Lab #1 Homework 2 & solution programs	Reading
Week 3 9/17	Monday Q&A ASCII Table, for reference Review of hexadecimal system (counting + adding) Wednesday Get the list of all the assembly programs seen in class: ls -ltr ~231a/handout Get one of the files into your 231a-xx account: getcopy movStrings1.asm Or use sftp sftp 231a-xx@beowulf.csc.smith.edu (and then use put filename or get filename to transfer files) Architecture of a simplified Pentium: Registers ALU CU Address and Data buses The mother of all instructions: MOV (covered here) byte, word, double-word variables. Friday Transferring information from and to memory. Example of various mov instructions Exercises with moving strings Homework #3 (will be due 9/26/12 evening, at midnight)	Reading The mov instruction Basic Computer Organization, Sections 3.0, 3.1, 3.3.1
Week 4 9/24	Monday Q&A Solutions to HW #2 posted (see above). The ADD instruction int a = 3, b = 5, result = 0; result = a + b; Tutorial on using the DDD debugger Wednesday Computing Fibonacci terms: Fibn = Fibn-1 + Fibn-2 with double-words with words with bytes Java's primitive data types SUB, INC, DEC, NEG Friday AND, OR, XOR, NOT (review [Boolean Algebra]) range of unsigned byte, words, dwords, and quadwords. Homework 4	Reading Sections 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, and 2.2.4 in the Nasm Manual Sections 3.1 to 3.2.1 in the Nasm Manual The INC instruction.
Week 5 10/1	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 6 10/8	Monday: Fall Break Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 7 10/15	Monday Wednesday Friday Midterm Exam, in class, closed books	Reading
Week 8 10/22	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 9 10/29	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 10 11/05	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 11 11/12	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 12 11/19	Monday Wednesday Thanksgiving Break Friday Thanksgiving Break	Reading
Week 13 11/26	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 14 12/03	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
Week 15 12/10	Monday Wednesday Last Class Final Exam, open books & computers	Reading