CSC 371
Systems I
This course meets from 3:05-4:20 PM TTh in Business 39. The textbook will be
A Programmer's View of Computer Architecture, by James Goodman
and Karen Miller. It comes with a software package named
SPIMSAL,
which simulates a MIPS RISC computer at the assembly-language level.
The syllabus
is available in LaTeX,
DVI,
Postscript, and
HTML.
A schedule of lectures tells
what I plan to talk about, and what I expect you to have read, by each
class meeting.
Homework assignments
- Homework 1, assigned 12 Sept, due 26 Sept
- problems 1.8,1.11,1.12,1.13,1.14,2.3,2.7,2.12 in the textbook.
Solutions available in DVI and
Postscript.
- Homework 2, assigned 1 Oct, due 10 Oct
- problems 3.4,3.10,3.12,4.5,4.9,4.10,4.11 in the textbook.
- Homework 3, assigned 22 Oct, due 12 Nov (postponed to 19 Nov)
- Do, but don't turn in, as many as possible of the drills at the end
of Chapter 5. See whether you get the same answers as your classmates.
Chapter 6: Do (and turn in!) problems 6.10,6.11,6.13, and the following:
"You are given a sorted list of positive floating-point
numbers to add up. Should you add them in increasing order, decreasing
order, or doesn't it matter? Why?"
Chapter 7: problems 7.1,7.7,7.11, and 7.14.
- Homework 4, assigned 19 Nov, due 10 Dec.
- problems 8.1,8.3,8.4,8.7,
problems 9.1,9.4,9.8.
Reading assignments
By Thursday, 21 Nov, you should have read through chapter 8 of the
Goodman & Miller textbook.
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