CS 240: Calendar

CS240 Masking Policy for Fall 2022

In Fall 2022, CS240 lectures and labs are observing the default Wellesley College masking policy for classrooms, in which all persons in a classroom (students and instructors) are required to wear masks.

This tentative calendar represents a best guess for the course schedule, but aspects of it may change during the semester.

Calendar

Computational Building Blocks
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 6 September		Lab: topic The Plan Lab: lab Transistors to Gates	Assign: Intros paper Assign: Gates
Wednesday 7 September		Lab: topic The Plan Lab: lab Transistors to Gates	Due: Intros
Thursday 8 September	Lecture: topic Digital Logic
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Sunday 11 September			Assign: Zero
Monday 12 September	Lecture: topic Digital Logic Lecture: topic Data as Bits		paper Due: Gates
Tuesday 13 September		Lab: lab Software Tools Lab: lab Data as Bits
Wednesday 14 September		Lab: lab Software Tools Lab: lab Data as Bits
Thursday 15 September	Lecture: topic Data as Bits Lecture: topic Integer Representation		Due: Zero code Assign: Bits
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 19 September	Lecture: topic Combinational Logic		code Checkpoint: Bits
Tuesday 20 September		Lab: lab Combinational Logic Lab: lab Arithmetic Logic
Wednesday 21 September		Lab: lab Combinational Logic Lab: lab Arithmetic Logic
Thursday 22 September	Lecture: topic Combinational Logic Lecture: topic Arithmetic Logic		code Due: Bits paper Assign: Circuits
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 26 September	Lecture: topic Arithmetic Logic Lecture: topic Sequential Logic
Tuesday 27 September		Lab: lab Sequential Logic
Wednesday 28 September Lake Day		Lab: Wed labs canceled for Lake Day. Work out makeup lab with Jean
Thursday 29 September	Lecture: topic Sequential Logic
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 3 October	Lecture: topic A Simple Processor		paper Due: Circuits paper Assign: Arch
Tuesday 4 October		Lab: lab Processor Datapath
Wednesday 5 October		Lab: lab Processor Datapath
Thursday 6 October	Lecture: topic A Simple Processor Lecture: topic ⁺Floating Point Number Representation Lecture: topic Programming with Memory
Hardware-Software Interface
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 10 October Fall Break
Tuesday 11 October Fall Break		Lab: No Tue lab due to Fall Break. Work out makeup lab with Jean
Wednesday 12 October		Lab: lab Pointers and Arrays in C
Thursday 13 October	Lecture: topic Programming with Memory		paper Due: Arch exam Preview: HW Exam
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 17 October	Lecture: topic Programming with Memory Lecture: topic ⁺Reasoning about Programs		exam Available: HW Exam
Tuesday 18 October		Lab: lab Pointers and Arrays in C	code Assign: Pointers
Wednesday 19 October		Lab: lab Pointers and Arrays in C
Thursday 20 October	Lecture: topic x86 Basics
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 24 October	Lecture: topic x86 Basics Lecture: topic x86 Control Flow		exam Due: HW Exam
Tuesday 25 October		Lab: lab x86 Launch
Wednesday 26 October		Lab: lab x86 Launch
Thursday 27 October	Lecture: topic x86 Control Flow		code Due: Pointers code Assign: x86
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 31 October	Lecture: topic x86 Procedures, Call Stack
Tuesday 1 November		Lab: lab Procedures, Call Stack
Wednesday 2 November		Lab: lab Procedures, Call Stack
Thursday 3 November	Lecture: topic x86 Procedures, Call Stack
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 7 November	Lecture: topic Buffer Overflows
Tuesday 8 November		Lab: lab Buffer Launch	code Due: x86 code Assign: Buffer
Wednesday 9 November		Lab: lab Buffer Launch
Thursday 10 November	Lecture: topic Representing Data Structures
Abstractions for Practical Systems
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 14 November	Lecture: topic Memory Allocation
Tuesday 15 November Tanner Conference		Lab: No Tue lab due to Tanner. Work out makeup lab with Jean
Wednesday 16 November		Lab: lab x86 Structures and Programming
Thursday 17 November	Lecture: topic Memory Allocation		code Due: Buffer
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 21 November	Lecture: topic Memory Hierarchy, Cache		exam Preview: ISA Exam
Tuesday 22 November		Lab: No lab this week
Wednesday 23 November Thanksgiving Break		Lab: No lab this week
Thursday 24 November Thanksgiving Break
Friday 25 November Thanksgiving Break
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 28 November	Lecture: topic Memory Hierarchy, Cache		exam Available: ISA Exam code Assign: Malloc
Tuesday 29 November		Lab: lab Malloc Launch
Wednesday 30 November		Lab: lab Malloc Launch
Thursday 1 December	Lecture: topic Exceptional Control Flow Lecture: topic Process Model
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 5 December	Lecture: topic Process Model Lecture: topic ⁺Shells, Signals Lecture: topic ⁺Threads		exam Due: ISA Exam
Tuesday 6 December		Lab: lab Processes Lab: lab ⁺Project Workshop
Wednesday 7 December		Lab: lab Processes Lab: lab ⁺Project Workshop	code Checkpoint: Malloc
Thursday 8 December	Lecture: topic Virtual Memory
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 12 December	Lecture: topic Beyond 240
Tuesday 13 December		Lab: No lab this week, but help hours during lab time
Wednesday 14 December		Lab: LDOC Lab: No lab this week, but help hours during lab time
Thursday 15 December Reading Period
Friday 16 December Reading Period			code Due: Malloc
Saturday 17 December Reading Period
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Sunday 18 December Reading Period
Monday 19 December Final Exams	Lecture: No final in CS240!
Tuesday 20 December Final Exams	Lecture: No final in CS240!
Wednesday 21 December Final Exams	Lecture: No final in CS240!
Thursday 22 December Final Exams	Lecture: No final in CS240! Lecture: All CS240 work due by the end of today.
Friday 23 December Winter Break

Foundations of Computer Systems

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