CIT 593 Schedule

Date	Lecture Topics	Readings & Other Info All readings from Patt & Patel unless otherwise noted!
Sept 6	Course Overview Computer Numbers	Chapter 1 Sections 2.1 to 2.2 Course intro slides Lecture notes
Sept 10	No lab today!
Sept 11	Computer Numbers (continued)	Lecture slides and notes Sections 2.3 to 2.7
Sept 13	Digital Logic	Lecture slides and notes Sections 3.1 to 3.2
Sept 17	Lab: UNIX crash course	History of Operating Systems slides Lab assignment
Sept 18	Combinational Circuits	Lecture slides and notes Section 3.3
Sept 20	Memory	Lecture slides and notes Sections 3.4 to 3.5
Sept 24	No lab today!	Chris will have office hours in 174 Moore GRW during the lab time
Sept 25	A Quick History of Computer Science Intro to von Neumann Architecture LC-3 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)	Lecture slides on history of CS Lecture notes Chapter 4, Section 5.1
Sept 27	LC-3 ALU Instructions	Lecture notes Section 5.2
Oct 1	Lab: Intro to assembly language programming	Lab assignment
Oct 2	LC-3 Data Movement Instructions	Lecture notes Section 5.3
Oct 4	LC-3 Control Instructions Assembling an LC-3 program	Lecture notes Sections 5.4 and 7.3
Oct 8	Lab: Assembly language programming	Lab assignment Solution to Exercise #1
Oct 9	I/O in LC-3	Lecture notes Lecture slides about homework #4 Sections 8.1 to 8.4
Oct 11	Subroutines and Traps	Lecture notes Chapter 9
Oct 15	No lab today!	Chris will have office hours during the lab time
Oct 16	Interrupts	Lecture slides and notes Sections 8.5, 10.1, 10.2
Oct 18	Midterm Review	Review slides
Oct 22	No classes! Fall break!
Oct 23	No classes! Fall break!
Oct 25	Midterm Exam	The exam will be held in DRL A6 We will have an extra review session the night before from 6:15-7:30pm in Towne 315 Questions from last year's exams and a study guide are available in Piazza
Oct 29	Lab canceled today!
Oct 30	Class canceled today!
Nov 1	Intro to C Programming Variables and Operators	Lecture notes Chapter 11, Sections 12.1 to 12.4
Nov 5	Lab: C Programming	Lab assignment
Nov 6	Loops and Conditionals Functions	Lecture notes Chapter 13, Sections 14.1 and 14.2
Nov 8	More Functions	Lecture slides and notes
Nov 12	How Functions Work	Lecture notes Sections 12.5 and 14.3
Nov 13	Arrays and Strings	Lecture notes Section 16.3
Nov 15	Pointers	Lecture notes Sections 16.1 and 16.2
Nov 19	More Pointers	Lecture notes Lab assignment (optional, but recommended)
Nov 20	x86 Architecture	Lecture presented by Tim Kaldewey, IBM Research Lecture slides Appendix B
Nov 22	No classes! Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 26	Lab: start on final project	Project overview slides Lab assignment
Nov 27	Structs and Linked Lists	Lecture notes Chapter 19
Nov 29	malloc and free More Linked Lists Queues	Lecture slides on malloc Lecture notes on queues
Dec 3	No lab today!	Chris will hold office hours during the lab time
Dec 4	Binary Search Trees Hashtables	Lecture slides and notes
Dec 6	Preview of CIT 595 Final Review	Final review slides
Dec 17	Final Exam	Scheduled by the university registrar for 6-8pm in DRL A6 Review session will be held on Fri Dec 14 at 2pm in Towne 321