Assignments

topic readings are listed separately on the working schedule.
lab assignments are listed separately on the lab web page.
ex denotes written exercises.
code denotes larger applied assignments

• Entrance Gates: ex Introduce yourself and work with digital logic gates.
  • assign: Thursday, 1 September
  • due: Monday, 12 September
• Integer Arithmancy: ex Practice number representation and computer arithmetic.
  • assign: Monday, 12 September
  • due: Monday, 19 September
• Bit Transfiguration: code Transfigure data with bit-level operations.
  • assign: Monday, 12 September
  • checkpoint: Monday, 19 September
  • due: Thursday, 22 September
• Circuit Herbology: ex Grow circuits and processor components.
  • assign: Thursday, 22 September
  • due: Thursday, 29 September
• Pensieve Processing: ex Inspect and manipulate memories and a processor design.
  • assign: Thursday, 29 September
  • due: Thursday, 6 October
• Pointer Potions: code Brew a command parser with C pointers and arrays.
  • assign: Thursday, 13 October
  • checkpoint: Thursday, 20 October
  • checkpoint: Monday, 24 October
  • due: Thursday, 27 October
• x86 Runes: code Reverse engineer compiled x86 runes to recover the Sourceror's Code.
  • assign: Monday, 24 October
  • checkpoint: Thursday, 3 November
  • due: Monday, 7 November
• Dark Buffer Arts: code Smash the stack to understand calling conventions and security concerns.
  • assign: Monday, 7 November
  • checkpoint: Monday, 14 November
  • due: Thursday, 17 November
• Cache Divination: ex Use performance impact to reveal cache dimensions.
  • assign: Monday, 14 November
  • due: Tuesday, 22 November
• Shell Spells: code Build a shell to explore the process model.
  • assign: Monday, 28 November
  • checkpoint: Thursday, 8 December
  • due: Monday, 12 December
• Remembrallocator: code Implement a memory allocator.
  • assign: Monday, 5 December
  • due: Thursday, 22 December