CS 240: Calendar

CS240 Masking Policy for Spring 2023

In Spring 2023, 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 unless the instructors decide otherwise. The two CS240 instructors prefer that masks be worn by all.

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
Monday 23 January	Lecture: Spring 2023 classes begin		Assign: Intros
Tuesday 24 January	Lecture: topic The Plan Lecture: topic Digital Logic		Due: Intros
Wednesday 25 January		Lab: lab Transistors to Gates
Thursday 26 January			paper Assign: Gates
Friday 27 January	Lecture: topic Digital Logic
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Sunday 29 January			Assign: Zero
Tuesday 31 January	Lecture: topic Digital Logic Lecture: topic Data as Bits		Checkpoint: Zero
Wednesday 1 February		Lab: lab Software Tools Lab: lab Data as Bits
Thursday 2 February
Friday 3 February	Lecture: topic Data as Bits		paper Due: Gates Due: Zero code Assign: Bits
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 7 February	Lecture: topic Data as Bits Lecture: topic Integer Representation
Wednesday 8 February		Lab: lab Combinational Logic Lab: lab Arithmetic Logic
Thursday 9 February			code Checkpoint: Bits
Friday 10 February	Lecture: topic Integer Representation Lecture: topic Combinational Logic
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 14 February	Lecture: topic Combinational Logic Lecture: topic Arithmetic Logic Lecture: topic Sequential Logic		code Due: Bits paper Assign: Circuits
Wednesday 15 February		Lab: lab Arithmetic Logic Lab: lab Sequential Logic
Friday 17 February	Lecture: topic Sequential Logic Lecture: topic A Simple Processor
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 20 February Presidents Day
Tuesday 21 February Monday Schedule
Wednesday 22 February		Lab: lab Processor Datapath	paper Due: Circuits paper Assign: Arch
Friday 24 February	Lecture: topic Sequential Logic Lecture: topic A Simple Processor Lecture: topic ⁺Floating Point Number Representation
Hardware-Software Interface
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 28 February	Lecture: topic Programming with Memory
Wednesday 1 March		Lab: lab Pointers and Arrays in C
Friday 3 March	Lecture: topic Programming with Memory		paper Due: Arch exam Preview: HW Exam
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Sunday 5 March			code Assign: Pointers
Tuesday 7 March	Lecture: topic Programming with Memory Lecture: topic ⁺Reasoning about Programs		exam Available: HW Exam
Wednesday 8 March		Lab: lab Pointers and Arrays in C
Friday 10 March	Lecture: topic Programming with Memory Lecture: topic x86 Basics		code Checkpoint: Pointers
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 14 March	Lecture: topic x86 Basics Lecture: topic x86 Control Flow
Wednesday 15 March		Lab: lab x86 Launch
Friday 17 March	Lecture: topic x86 Control Flow		exam Due: HW Exam
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 21 March	Lecture: topic x86 Control Flow Lecture: topic x86 Procedures, Call Stack		code Due: Pointers
Wednesday 22 March		Lab: lab Procedures, Call Stack	code Assign: x86
Friday 24 March	Lecture: topic x86 Procedures, Call Stack
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 27 March Spring Break
Tuesday 28 March Spring Break
Wednesday 29 March Spring Break
Thursday 30 March Spring Break
Friday 31 March Spring Break
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 4 April	Lecture: topic x86 Procedures, Call Stack
Wednesday 5 April		Lab: lab x86 Structures and Programming
Friday 7 April	Lecture: topic x86 Procedures, Call Stack Lecture: topic Representing Data Structures
Abstractions for Practical Systems
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 11 April	Lecture: topic Representing Data Structures Lecture: topic Buffer Overflows		code Due: x86 code Assign: Buffer
Wednesday 12 April		Lab: lab Buffer Launch
Friday 14 April	Lecture: topic Representing Data Structures Lecture: topic Buffer Overflows
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 17 April Patriots Day
Tuesday 18 April	Lecture: topic Memory Allocation		code Due: Buffer code Assign: Malloc exam Preview: ISA Exam
Wednesday 19 April		Lab: lab Malloc Launch
Friday 21 April	Lecture: topic Memory Allocation		exam Available: ISA Exam code Checkpoint: Malloc
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 25 April	Lecture: topic Memory Allocation Lecture: topic Memory Hierarchy, Cache
Wednesday 26 April Ruhlman Conference		Lab: No lab this week
Thursday 27 April
Friday 28 April	Lecture: topic Memory Hierarchy, Cache Lecture: topic Exceptional Control Flow		exam Due: ISA Exam
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Tuesday 2 May	Lecture: topic Process Model Lecture: topic Beyond 240 Lecture: topic ⁺Shells, Signals Lecture: topic ⁺Threads Lecture: topic ⁺Virtual Memory
Wednesday 3 May	Lecture: LDOC	Lab: lab Processes Lab: lab ⁺Project Workshop
Thursday 4 May Reading Period
Friday 5 May Reading Period
Date	Lecture	Lab	Work
Monday 8 May Final Exams	Lecture: Final Exams (no final in CS240)		code Due: Malloc
Tuesday 9 May Final Exams	Lecture: Final Exams (no final in CS240)
Wednesday 10 May Final Exams	Lecture: Final Exams (no final in CS240)
Thursday 11 May Final Exams	Lecture: Final Exams (no final in CS240) Lecture: Last official day to submit CS240 work

Foundations of Computer Systems

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