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, 26 January
  • due: Thursday, 2 February
• Integer Arithmancy: ex Practice number representation and computer arithmetic.
  • assign: Thursday, 2 February
  • due: Monday, 6 February
• Circuit Herbology: ex Grow circuits and processor components.
  • assign: Monday, 6 February
  • due: Monday, 13 February
• Bit Transfiguration: code Transfigure data with bit-level operations.
  • assign: Thursday, 9 February
  • checkpoint: Thursday, 16 February
  • due: Tuesday, 21 February
• Pensieve Processing: ex Inspect and manipulate memories and a processor design.
  • assign: Tuesday, 21 February
  • checkpoint: Monday, 27 February
  • due: Tuesday, 28 February
• Pointer Potions: code Brew a command parser with C pointers and arrays.
  • assign: Monday, 6 March
  • checkpoint: Thursday, 9 March
  • due: Monday, 13 March
• x86 Runes: code Reverse engineer compiled x86 runes to recover the Sourceror's Code.
  • assign: Monday, 13 March
  • checkpoint: Monday, 20 March
  • due: Friday, 24 March
• Dark Buffer Arts: code Smash the stack to understand calling conventions and security concerns.
  • assign: Monday, 3 April
  • checkpoint: Thursday, 6 April
  • due: Monday, 10 April
• Cache Divination: ex Use performance impact to reveal cache dimensions.
  • assign: Monday, 10 April
  • due: Tuesday, 18 April
• Shell Spells: code Build a shell to explore the process model.
  • assign: Monday, 24 April
  • due: Monday, 1 May
• Remembrallocator: code Implement a memory allocator.
  • assign: Monday, 1 May
  • due: Monday, 15 May