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Staff and hours (Google Calendar, iCal)

Instructor: Ben Wood (contact), SCI E128. Office hours: Mon 10:30-11:30 + 2:00-3:00, Thu 3:30-4:30, Fri 2:45-4:00, or by appointment (especially during other lab)
Lab Instructor: Jean Herbst (contact), SCI E129. Office hours: Mon 5-7, Tue 3-4, Wed 1-2 (lab assignment only), Fri 3-4, or by appointment
Tutors: Amy, Ella, Madeleine. Drop-in hours: Sun 6-8, Mon 7-9, Wed 5:15-6:15, Thu 7-8 in the Microfocus

Schedule → now

topic = reading/class, lab = lab, ex = written assignment, code = applied assignment, exam = exam

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
25 January	26 January topic the plan (reading, slides) topic digital logic (reading, slides) ex Assign: Entrance Gates	27 January lab computer guts lab transistors lab environment	28 January	29 January topic digital logic (reading, slides)
1 February	2 February ex Due: Entrance Gates topic data as bits (reading, slides) ex Assign: Integer Arithmancy code Assign: Bit Transfiguration	3 February lab digital logic	4 February	5 February topic integer representation (reading, slides)
8 February code Checkpoint: Bit Transfiguration	9 February ex Due: Integer Arithmancy topic combinational logic (reading, slides) topic logic for arithmetic, ALU (reading, slides)	10 February lab ALU	11 February code Due: Bit Transfiguration	12 February topic latches, flip-flops, registers (reading, slides)
15 February (Presidents' Day) ex Assign: Circuit Herbology	16 February topic latches, flip-flops, registers (reading, slides) topic memory devices (reading, slides)	17 February lab flip-flops, FSMs	18 February	19 February topic a simple processor (reading, slides)
22 February	23 February ex Checkpoint: Circuit Herbology topic a simple processor (reading, slides) exam preview	24 February lab processor datapath	25 February	26 February ex Due: Circuit Herbology topic programming with memory (reading, slides)
29 February	1 March exam digital logic, microarchitecture, data representation	2 March lab C, pointers, arrays, debugging code Assign: Pointer Potions	3 March	4 March topic programming with memory (reading, slides) topic reasoning about programs
7 March	8 March topic x86 ISA, assembly (reading, slides)	9 March lab more C and x86 tools	10 March code Checkpoint: Pointer Potions	11 March topic control flow (reading, slides)
14 March code Due: Pointer Potions	15 March topic control flow (reading, slides) code Assign: x86 Whizbangs	16 March lab reverse engineering	17 March	18 March topic procedures and stacks (reading, slides)
21 March (Spring Break)	22 March (Spring Break)	23 March (Spring Break)	24 March (Spring Break)	25 March (Spring Break)
28 March	29 March topic procedures and stacks (reading, slides)	30 March lab procedures, stacks	31 March code Checkpoint: x86 Whizbangs	1 April topic buffer overrun exploits (reading, slides) code Assign: Dark Buffer Arts
4 April code Due: x86 Whizbangs	5 April topic data structures (reading, slides)	6 April lab x86 data structures	7 April	8 April topic memory hierarchy and cache (reading, slides)
11 April code Due: Dark Buffer Arts	12 April topic memory hierarchy and cache (reading, slides) ex Assign: Cache Divination	13 April lab cache	14 April	15 April topic exceptional control flow (slides; CSAPP 8.1) topic operating systems, process model (slides; CSAPP 1.7, 8.2 - 8.4) code Assign: Shell Spells
18 April (Patriots' Day)	19 April (Monday Schedule) exam self-scheduled ex Due: Cache Divination	20 April exam self-scheduled lab processes	21 April exam self-scheduled	22 April exam self-scheduled topic shells and signals (slides; CSAPP 8.5 as needed) topic virtual memory (slides; CSAPP 9.0 - 9.7)
25 April	26 April topic virtual memory (slides; CSAPP 9.0 - 9.7)	27 April (Ruhlman)	28 April	29 April topic dynamic memory allocation (slides; CSAPP 9.9 - 9.12) code Checkpoint: Shell Spells code Assign: Remembrallocator
2 May code Due: Shell Spells	3 May topic garbage collection topic compilers, runtime systems, Java (slides) topic beyond 240 (slides)	4 May lab memory management	5 May (Reading Period)	6 May (Reading Period)
9 May (Reading Period)	10 May (Final Exams)	11 May (Final Exams)	12 May (Final Exams)	13 May (Final Exams)
16 May (Final Exams) code Due: Remembrallocator	17 May (Summer Break)	18 May (Summer Break)	19 May (Summer Break)	20 May (Summer Break)