SSE2030: Introduction to Computer Systems (Fall 2013)

[Schedule]

The following schedule is tentative and subject to change without notice.

Day	Topic	Reading	Projects
9/2 (M)	Course overview
9/4 (W)	Introduction to Unix	Chap. 8
9/9 (M)	File I/O	Chap. 10
9/11 (W)	Processes	Chap. 8	PA #1 (~9/22)
9/16 (M)	Processes (cont'd)	Chap. 8
9/18 (W)	National holiday
9/23 (M)	Internet	Chap. 11	PA #2 (~10/2)
9/25 (W)	School holiday
9/30 (M)	Sockets	Chap. 11
10/2 (W)	Sockets (cont'd)	Chap. 11
10/7 (M)	Sockets (cont'd)	Chap. 11	PA #3 (~10/25)
10/9 (W)	National holiday
10/14 (M)	Signals	Chap. 8
10/16 (W)	Concurrent programming	Chap. 12
10/21 (M)	Midterm exam week
10/23 (W)	Midterm exam week
10/28 (M)	Concurrent programming (cont'd)	Chap. 12	PA #4 (~11/17)
10/30 (W)	Pthreads	Chap. 12
11/4 (M)	Representing and manipulating integers I	Chap. 2
11/6 (W)	Representing and manipulating intergers I (cont'd)	Chap. 2
11/11 (M)	Representing and manipulating integers II Byte ordering	Chap. 2
11/13 (W)	Representing and manipulating floating points	Chap. 2
11/18 (M)	Representing and manipulating floating points (cont'd)	Chap. 2	PA #5 (~11/27)
11/20 (W)	Machine-level representation of programs Assembly I: Basic operations	Chap. 2, 3
11/25 (M)	Assembly II: Control flow	Chap. 3
11/27 (W)	Assembly II: Control flow (cont'd)	Chap. 3
12/2 (M)	Assembly III: Procedures	Chap. 3	PA #6 (~12/22)
12/4 (W)	Buffer overflow	Chap. 3
12/9 (M)	Linking	Chap. 7
12/11 (W)	CPU, memory, and cache Course summary	Chap. 4
12/16 (M)	-
12/18 (W)	Final exam: 10:30 ~ 11:45 Scope: Chap. 1, 2, 3.1-3.7, 3.12, 7.1-7.4, 7.8-7.10, 8.1-8.5, 10, 11, 12.1, 12.3-12.4, 12.7, lecture slides

Credit: Most of slides for this lecture are based on slides created by textbook authors, Drs. Bryant and O'Hallaron at CMU. (see lecture notes by authors)