Schedule for CSC 252, Spring 2014 (Tentative)
The following is my best guess as to the schedule for this term. Click on the unit name to see my lecture notes.
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Schedule for CSC 252, Spring 2014 (Tentative)The following is my best guess as to the schedule for this term. Click on the unit name to see my lecture notes. |
| Unit | Topics | Reading | Assignments |
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| Overview | |||
| Thur. Jan. 16 | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Get an account and set it up |
| Data representation | |||
| Tues. Jan. 21 | Overview | Chapter 2 | A1: datalab (bit twiddling) |
| Thur. Jan. 23 | Integers | A1 trivia due, noon | |
| Tues. Jan. 28 | Floating Point | ||
| Assembly-level programs | |||
| Thur. Jan. 30 | overview | Chapter 3 | A1 due midnight tomorrow; A2: the binary bomb |
| Tues. Feb. 04 | control flow | A2 trivia due, noon | |
| Thur. Feb. 06 | subroutines | ||
| Tues. Feb. 11 | structured data | ||
| Processor architecture | |||
| Thur. Feb. 13 | circuits and history | Chapter 4 intro; “asides” on RISC/CISC; Section 4.2.5 | A2 due midnight tomorrow; A3: the buffer bomb |
| Tues. Feb. 18 | sequential implementation | Figures 4.22 and 4.23; Section 4.5.1 | A3 trivia due, noon |
| Thur. Feb. 20 | pipelining | Figures 4.40, 4.41, 4.52; Sections 4.4, 4.5.4–4.5.9 | |
| Tues. Feb. 25 | modern processors | Sections 4.5.13, 4.6, 5.7 | |
| Optimizing performance | |||
| Thurs. Feb. 27 | the key performance formula; obstacles to compiling fast code | (rest of) Chapter 5 | A3 due midnight tomorrow |
| Tues. Mar. 04 | Midterm Exam | ||
| Thur. Mar. 06 | Special Event: Bob Collwell, 11am, 318/418 Gleason Hall (business school); attendance mandatory | ||
| Mar. 11 & 13 | UR spring break | (there is no A4 this year) | |
| The storage hierarchy | |||
| Tues. Mar. 18 | storage technology | Chapter 6 | A5: tuning performance |
| Thur. Mar. 20 | caching | A5 trivia due, noon | |
| Tues. Mar. 25 | performance tuning | ||
| Exceptional control flow | |||
| Thur. Mar. 27 | exceptions | Chapter 8 | |
| Tues. Apr. 01 | processes and signals | A5 due midnight yesterday; A6: Unix shell | |
| Thur. Apr. 03 | non-local jumps, linking | skim Chapter 7 | A6 trivia due, noon |
| Virtual memory | |||
| Tues. Apr. 08 | Address translation | Chapter 9 | |
| Thur. Apr. 10 | Pentium/Linux case study | ||
| Tues. Apr. 15 | Storage management; Guest lecture by Ryan Yates (Prof. Scott out of town) | A6 due midnight yesterday; A7: memory allocation | |
| I/O and Networks | |||
| Thur. Apr. 17 | read, write, streams | Chapters 10 and 11 (skim all; read 10.1–10.3, 10.8–10.9, and 11.3–11.4 carefully) | A7 trivia due, noon |
| Concurrency | |||
| Tues. Apr. 22 | Threads and semaphores | Chapter 12 (skim all; read 12.3–12.6 carefully) | |
| Thur. Apr. 24 | Cache coherence | ||
| Tues. Apr. 29 | Transactional memory Wrap-up | A7 due 11:59pm Friday | |
| Fri. May 9 | Final Exam | 8:30am, CSB 209 | |
