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This schedule is tentative and most likely will be revised. Among other things, the assignments are not yet cast in stone. More assignments may be added.
| date | due | readings | lecture topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09-28 R | 1. Introduction | ||
| 10-03 T | §1–§2.3, §2.5 | 2. Integers | |
| 10-05 R | §3–§3.5 | 3. Machine-level programming basics | |
| 10-06 F | HW #1 | ||
| 10-10 T | §3.6 | 4. Control | |
| 10-12 R | Data Lab (CCLE) | §3.7 | 5. Procedures |
| 10-17 T | §3.8–§3.9 | 6. Data structures | |
| 10-19 R | HW #2 | §3.10, §3.12 | 7. Pointer problems |
| 10-24 T | (midterm 1, in lecture) | ||
| 10-26 R | HW #3 | §2.4, §3.11 | 8. Floating point |
| 10-31 T | Pexex Lab | §5–§5.6, §5.13–§5.15 | 9. Program optimization |
| 11-02 R | §5.7–5.12 | 10. Instruction-level parallelism | |
| 11-07 T | §6 | 11. The memory hierarchy | |
| 11-09 R | HW #4 | §12–§12.4 | 12. Thread-level parallelism |
| 11-14 T | 13. Catching up | ||
| 11-16 R | (midterm 2, in lecture) | ||
| 11-21 T | Smashing Lab | §12.5–12.8 | 13. Synchronization |
| 11-28 T | HW #5 | §10 | 14. I/O |
| 11-30 R | §9 | 15. Virtual memory | |
| 12-05 T | §7 | 16. Linking | |
| 12-07 R | OpenMP Lab | §8, Appendix A | 17. Exceptions and errors |
| 12-08 F | (No late submissions are accepted after the last day of instruction.) | ||
The following textbook chapters are useful and entertaining but are not part of this course: §4, §11.
All assignments are due at 23:55 on the date specified.
The final exam is three hours and will be held at the time scheduled by the registrar.