SSE2030: Introduction to Computer Systems (Fall 2014)

[Schedule]

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

Day	Topic	Reading	Projects
9/1 (M)	Course overview
9/3 (W)	Introduction to Unix	Chap. 8
9/8 (M)	National holiday
9/10 (W)	National holiday
9/15 (M)	File I/O	Chap. 10
9/17 (W)	Processes	Chap. 8
9/22 (M)	Processes (cont'd)	Chap. 8
9/24 (W)	Signals	Chap. 8
9/29 (M)	Pipes and FIFOs	Chap. 10
10/1 (W)	Pthreads	Chap. 12
10/6 (M)	Pthreads (cont'd)	Chap. 12
10/8 (W)	Pthreads (cont'd)	Chap. 2
10/13 (M)	Representing and manipulating integers I	Chap. 2
10/15 (W)	Representing and manipulating integers II	Chap. 2
10/20 (M)	Midterm exam week
10/22 (W)	Midterm exam week
10/27 (M)	Byte ordering	Chap. 2
10/29 (W)	Representing and manipulating floating points	Chap. 2
11/3 (M)	Representing and manipulating floating points (cont'd)	Chap. 2
11/5 (W)	Machine-level representation of programs	Chap. 3
11/10 (M)	Assembly I: Basic operations	Chap. 3
11/12 (W)	Assembly II: Control flow	Chap. 3
11/17 (M)	Assembly III: Procedures	Chap. 3
11/19 (W)	Assembly IV: Complex data types	Chap. 3
11/24 (M)	Buffer overflow	Chap. 3
11/26 (W)	Linking	Chap. 7
12/1 (M)	Linking (cont'd)	Chap. 7
12/3 (W)	Processor architecture	Chap. 4
12/8 (M)	Memory hiearchy	Chap. 6
12/10 (W)	Course summary	Chap. 6
12/15 (M)	-
12/17 (W)	Final exam: 10:30 ~ 11:45

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)