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Wellness and Inclusion
It is very important to us that you succeed in CS 24. We provide many extra resources to help you. Prof. Ordentlich and the TAs hold many office hours.
It is also very important to us that you maintain your mental wellness throughout the course. A few points are not worth losing sleep over. Everyone on the course staff is available to chat, and you can always attend office hours for a non-academic conversation if necessary. You can also visit the counseling center if you find you need help beyond the course staff. If you have a temporary health condition or permanent disability (either mental health or physical health related), you should contact accessibility services if you have not already. Additionally, if there is something we can do to make your experience better, please let us know.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are all core values of this course. All participants in this course must be treated with respect by other members of the community in accordance with the honor code. If you feel unwelcome or unsafe in any way, no matter how minor, we encourage you to talk to Prof. Ordentlich, Prof. Blank, or one of the Deans. We view these sorts of honor code violations as completely unacceptable, and we take them very seriously.
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Handouts
The following is a list of handouts that you might find helpful throughout the course. We’ve categorized them by when they are useful.
Course
Syllabus – an overview of the course and administrative information
Collaboration Policy – the course collaboration policy
Code Quality Guidelines – a list of style requirements for the projects
Tools of the Trade – tutorials for tools that you will need to use in this course
Manual Pages – documentation for relevant standard C functions
Schedule
| L00 | Mon, Sep 29 |
Perspectives on Computing Systems
What is this course about? How will grading work? What will the notes look like? What is hexadecimal and why do I care? How do computers represent information?
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| L01 | Wed, Oct 01 |
Memory
What does an abstraction for memory look like? Give me the details!
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| L02 | Fri, Oct 03 |
Fixed-Width Integers
How do computers represent integers? What about negative numbers? How does this affect me as a programmer?
DS 4.1-4.7
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| DUE | Fri, Oct 03 11:30 pm |
pretest
(disk)
[ guide ]
The main goal of this pre-test is to orient you to what CS 24 will be like. It will also cover representation, use number bases, and review pointers.
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| L03 | Mon, Oct 06 |
ARM64 Introduction
What is ARM64? Why should I care about assembly? How can I understand basic assembly programs and instructions such as mov and others?
DS 9.1-9.3
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| L04 | Wed, Oct 08 |
ARM64 Conditionals
How does branching work in ARM64? What is a label? How can we translate if statements into assembly?
DS 9.4
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| L05 | Fri, Oct 10 |
ARM64 Procedures
How do function calls and returns work? What is 'the stack' really?
DS 9.7-9.9, 12
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| DUE | Fri, Oct 10 11:30 pm |
project01
(jvm)
[ guide ]
This project involves building a simplified Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to processes bytecode and allow for Java programs to be executed on a custom virtual machine.
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| L06 | Mon, Oct 13 |
More ARM64 Procedures
How does recursion work using the stack?
DS 9.7-9.9, 12
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| L07 | Wed, Oct 15 | ARM64 Recursive Procedures |
| L08 | Fri, Oct 17 | ARM64 Recap |
| L09 | Mon, Oct 20 |
Security: Buffer Overflows
What happens if we read past the end of a buffer? How can we exploit this?
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