CSC231 Schedule 2012

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

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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 (this one is graded, due 9/19)	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</font> Get one of the files into your 231a-xx account: getcopy movStrings1.asm Architecture of a simplified Pentium: Registers ALU CLU Address and Data buses The mother of all instructions: MOV (covered here) byte, word, double-word variables. Transferring information from and to memory. Exercises with moving strings Friday	Reading The mov instruction Basic Computer Organization, Sections 3.0, 3.1, 3.3.1 Review Data Representation Bits, Nibbles, Bytes The Hexadecimal System The MOV instruction
Week 4 9/24	Monday Wednesday Friday	Reading
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