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: Tuesday, 26 January
  • due: Tuesday, 2 February
• Integer Arithmancy: ex Practice number representation and computer arithmetic.
  • assign: Tuesday, 2 February
  • due: Tuesday, 9 February
• Bit Transfiguration: code Transfigure data with bit-level operations.
  • assign: Tuesday, 2 February
  • checkpoint: Monday, 8 February
  • due: Thursday, 11 February
• Circuit Herbology: ex Grow circuits and processor components.
  • assign: Monday, 15 February
  • checkpoint: Tuesday, 23 February
  • due: Friday, 26 February
• Pointer Potions: code Brew a command parser with C pointers and arrays.
  • assign: Wednesday, 2 March
  • checkpoint: Thursday, 10 March
  • due: Monday, 14 March
• x86 Whizbangs: code Reverse engineer compiled x86 runes to defuse a binary whizbang.
  • assign: Tuesday, 15 March
  • checkpoint: Thursday, 31 March
  • due: Monday, 4 April
• Dark Buffer Arts: code Smash the stack to understand calling conventions and security concerns.
  • assign: Friday, 1 April
  • due: Monday, 11 April
• Cache Divination: ex Use performance impact to reveal cache dimensions.
  • assign: Tuesday, 12 April
  • due: Tuesday, 19 April
• Shell Spells: code Build a shell to explore the process model.
  • assign: Friday, 15 April
  • checkpoint: Friday, 29 April
  • due: Monday, 2 May
• Remembrallocator: code Implement a memory allocator.
  • assign: Friday, 29 April
  • due: Monday, 16 May