Homepage for CSC 373 Sections 901, 910 Spring 2008
Computer Systems I

Late assignments

All late assignments must be submitted by Friday, June 13. I cannot accept anything beyond this date.

Syllabus

Instructor information (including office hours)

Tentative schedule

Important dates

Lecture notes and example programs

Lecture notes will be posted weekly. Students may find it helpful to bring a hard copy of the notes to class.

• Week 10: Introduction to Virtual Memory; review for final exam.
  • Sample solutions to review problems

• Week 9: Unix input/output, cont.; Memory caching.
  • Example programs from class, 5/29/2008.

• Week 8: Buffer overflows and security; Unix input/output
  • Example programs from class, 5/22/2008.

• Week 6: Midterm Exam; Finish Assembly Language; Debugging.
  • Example programs and demo of gdb from class, 5/8/2008
  • GDB tutorial from Princeton University

• Week 5: More Assembly Language; review for Midterm Exam.
  • Examples from class, 5/1/2008, including some answers to midterm review problems. I will post complete sample solutions shortly.

• Week 4: Assembly Language, cont. (same notes as last week). Also, some PowerPoint slides.
  • What is a stack? (just the first 3 slides of this .ppt file)
  • The program stack immediately after a function call
  • Additional notes and example programs from class, 4/24/2008

• Week 3: Data representations, cont. (last week's notes); Introduction to Assembly Language.
  • Scientific notation and IEEE floating point
  • Example problems and programs from class, 4/17/2008

• Week 2: C Primer, cont; Data representations.
  • IEEE floating point exercises
  • Example programs from class, 4/10/2008

• Week 1: Intro; C Primer
  • Internal representation of programs

Homework assignments

Assignments will be posted on CTI's Course OnLine (COL) system. Please turn in all programs through COL.
• Homework assignment 4 is now available on Course OnLine. It is due on Thursday, June 5.
• Homework assignment 4 is now available on Course OnLine. It is due on Thursday, May 22.
• Homework assignment 3 is now available on Course OnLine. It is due on Thursday, May 1.
• Homework assignment 2 is now available on Course OnLine. It is due on Thursday, April 24 (note change in due date).
• Homework assignment 1 is now available on Course OnLine. It is due on Sunday, April 13 (note change in due date).

Computing environment

• Linux at CTI
  This course will mainly use C on a Linux platform. This page explains your options, either in the CTI labs or remotely using ssh (Secure Shell). Note: you do not need a hawk account for this course.
• SSH -- Secure Shell client needed to remotely access CTI Linux boxes
• Bloodshed Dev-C++ is a Windows-based C++ development environment that comes with gcc, the Gnu C compiler (same one that is on Linux). For several of the assignments and exercises given in this course, you may be able to use the DOS-based gcc instead of Linux. (Look in the \bin directory of the Bloodshed installation to find gcc and related executables).

Other links

• Textbook Web site
• CTI Tutors
• Linux Command Line Tutorial