Assignments

CS 240 assignments have a few forms:

• lab Short weekly pre-lab assignments prepare for hands-on work during the upcoming lab meeting. Pre-lab assignments are posted on the lab web page 1 or 2 days before lab.
• ex Written exercises practice concepts in the small.
• code Large applied assignments involve signficant effort on programming, reverse engineering, and debugging.

Assignments

This list may change. lab assignments are listed separately on the lab web page.

• Entrance Gates: ex Introduce yourself and work with digital logic gates.
  • assign: Tuesday, 01 September
  • due: Tuesday, 08 September
• Integer Arithmancy: ex Practice number representation and computer arithmetic.
  • assign: Tuesday, 08 September
  • due: Tuesday, 15 September
• Bit Transfiguration: code Transfigure data with bit-level operations.
  • assign: Tuesday, 08 September
  • checkpoint: Tuesday, 15 September
  • due: Thursday, 17 September
• Circuit Divination: ex Derive circuits and extend basic processor components.
  • assign: Friday, 18 September
  • due: Friday, 25 September
• Pointer Potions: code Brew a command parser with C pointers and arrays.
  • assign: Wednesday, 07 October
  • due: Monday, 19 October
• Binary Whizbangs and x86 Runes: code Reverse engineer compiled x86 runes to defuse a binary whizbang.
  • assign: Wednesday, 21 October
  • checkpoint: Tuesday, 27 October
  • due: Thursday, 29 October
• Dark Buffer Arts: code Smash the stack to understand calling conventions and security concerns.
  • assign: Friday, 30 October
  • due: Monday, 09 November
• Cache Sleuth: lab (Continued from lab) Use performance impact to reveal cache dimensions.
  • assign: Wednesday, 11 November
  • due: Friday, 13 November
• Shell Spells: code Build a shell to explore the process model.
  • assign: Wednesday, 18 November
  • checkpoint: Thursday, 03 December
  • due: Monday, 07 December
• Remembrallocator: code Implement a memory allocator.
  • assign: Wednesday, 02 December
  • due: Friday, 18 December