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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 | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 09-27 R | 1. Introduction | ||
| 10-02 T | §1–§2.3, §2.5 | 2. Integers | |
| 10-04 R | §3–§3.5 | 3. Machine-level programming basics | |
| 10-05 F | HW #1 | ||
| 10-09 T | §3.6 | 4. Control | |
| 10-11 R | Data Lab (CCLE) | §3.7 | 5. Procedures | 
| 10-16 T | §3.8–§3.9 | 6. Data structures | |
| 10-18 R | HW #2 | §3.10, §3.12 | 7. Pointer problems | 
| 10-23 T | (midterm 1, in lecture) | ||
| 10-25 R | HW #3 | §2.4, §3.11 | 8. Floating point | 
| 10-30 T | Pexex Lab | §5–§5.6, §5.13–§5.15 | 9. Program optimization | 
| 11-01 R | §5.7–5.12 | 10. Instruction-level parallelism | |
| 11-06 T | §6 | 11. The memory hierarchy | |
| 11-08 R | HW #4 | §12–§12.4 | 12. Thread-level parallelism | 
| 11-13 T | 13. Catching up | ||
| 11-15 R | (midterm 2, in lecture) | ||
| 11-20 T | Smashing Lab | §12.5–12.8 | 13. Synchronization | 
| 11-27 T | §10 | 14. I/O | |
| 11-29 R | HW #5 | §9 | 15. Virtual memory | 
| 12-04 T | §7 | 16. Linking | |
| 12-06 R | OpenMP Lab | §8, Appendix A | 17. Exceptions and errors | 
| 12-07 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.