Spring 2018 CS240

Foundations of Computer Systems with Laboratory

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CS240 Spring 2018 schedule

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Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Jan 29

The Plan and Administrivia

Assign: Intro to CS240

Jan 30

Lab

Jan 31

Lab

Feb 1

Digital Logic

Due: Intro to CS240
Assign: Logic Gates

Feb 2

Feb 5

Data as Bits

Feb 6

Lab

Feb 7

Lab

Feb 8

Data as Bits
Integer Representation

Due: Logic Gates
Assign: Bit Puzzles

Feb 9

Feb 12

Integer Representation

Feb 13

Lab

Feb 14

Lab

Feb 15

Combinational Logic


Feb 16

Feb 19

President's Day
(No Classes)

Due: Bit Puzzles

Feb 20

(Monday Schedule)
Arithmetic Logic, ALU

Assign: Circuits

Feb 21

Lab

Feb 22

Memory Building Blocks: Latches, flip-flops, and registers

Feb 23

Feb 26

Memory Building Blocks
A Simple Processor

Due: Circuits
Assign: Processors

Feb 27

Lab

Feb 28

Lab

Mar 1

A Simple Processor

Mar 2

Mar 5

A Simple Processor

Due: Processors

Take-Home Quiz Out

Mar 6

Lab

Mar 7

Lab

Mar 8

C Programming with Memory

Assign: Pointers in C

Take-Home Quiz Due

Mar 9

Mar 12

Processor Improvements: Pipelining and Parallelism

Mar 13

Lab

Mar 14

Lab

Mar 15

Processor Improvements: Speculative Execution and the Meltdown Flaw

Mar 16

Due: Pointers in C

Mar 19

In-class Midterm Exam

Mar 20

Lab

Mar 21

Lab

Mar 22

Spring Break

Mar 23

Spring Break

Mar 26

Spring Break

Mar 27

Spring Break

Mar 28

Spring Break

Mar 29

Spring Break

Mar 30

Spring Break

Apr 2

x86: ISA

Assign: x86 Runes

Apr 3

Lab

Apr 4

Lab

Apr 5

x86: Control

Apr 6

Apr 9

x86: Procedures and stacks

Apr 10

Lab

Apr 11

Lab

Apr 12

Intro to Computer Security: Buffer overrun exploits

Due: x86 Runes
Assign: Buffer Exploits

Apr 13

Apr 16

Patriot's Day
(No Classes)

Apr 17

Lab

Apr 18

Lab

Apr 19

Memory Hierarchy and Cache

Apr 20

Apr 23

Memory Hierarchy and Cache
Intro to Operating Systems

Due: Buffer Exploits

Take-Home Quiz Out

Apr 24

Lab

Apr 25

Lab

Apr 26

Intro to Operating Systems

Assign: Shell

Take-Home Quiz Due

Apr 27

Apr 30

Shells and Signals

May 1

Lab

May 2

Ruhlman Conference
(No Classes)

May 3

Virtual Memory

May 4

May 7

Dynamic Memory Allocation

Due: Shell
Assign: Memory Allocator

May 8

Lab

May 9

Lab

May 10

Beyond CS240

May 11

May 14

Reading Period

May 15

Reading Period

May 16

Final Exam Period

May 17

Final Exam Period

May 18

Final Exam Period

May 21

Final Exam Period

May 22

Final Exam Period

Due: Memory Allocator

May 23



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May 25