January
Monday T Wednesday R F
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19 
University Closed
20 
 Before Class:
Syllabus
Misc page
Chapter 1

Class:
21 
22 
KOM 324
25 
 Class:
Course Intro (or as multi-slide PDF)
Course Overview (PDF)
26 
27 
 Class:
C Review (or PDF)
28 
29 

February
Monday T Wednesday R F
Last Day to Drop Without a Grade
1 
 Class:
C Review (PDF) (pointers)
2 
3 
 Class:
C Review (PDF) (I/O)
Tools
4 
5 
8 
 Before Class:
Chapter 2.0-2.3

Class:
Tools
Data Representation
GDB (PDF, Cheat Sheet) (KOM 360 3:55 PM)
9 
University Closed
10 
11 
12 
15 
 Class:
Data Representation
16 
17 
 Before Class:
Chapter 2.4-2.5

Class:
Floating Point Numbers
18 
19 
22 
 Before Class:
Chapter 3 - 3.5

Class:
Floating Point Numbers
Machine Basics
23 
24 
 Before Class:
Chapter 3.6 (3.7 - 3.12)

Class:
Machine Basics (Assembly Basics)
Machine Control

Due:
Data Representation
25 
26 
29 
 Before Class:
Chapter 5

Class:
Machine Control (Loops)
Program Performance

Due:
Two Review Questions

March
Monday T Wednesday R F
1 
2 
 Before Class:
Chapter 5

Class:
Program Performance (Exploiting Instruction-Level Parallelism)
Exam1 (Topics)
3 
4 
Spring Break
7 
8 
Spring Break
9 
10 
11 
14 
 Before Class:
Chapter 6.1 - 6.3

Class:
Memory Hierarchy
15 
16 
 Before Class:
Chapter 6.4 - 6.7

Class:
Cache Memories
17 
18 
21 
 Before Class:
Chapter 7

Class:
Linking and Loading
22 
23 
 Before Class:
Chapter 8.1-8.4

Class:
Exceptional Flow Control: Exceptions And Processes
24 
Last day to withdraw without Department Chair's signature
25 
28 
 Before Class:
Chapter 8.5-8.8

Class:
Exceptional Flow Control: Exceptions And Processes (fork() examples)
Exceptional Flow Control: Signals
deadlock.c
29 
30 
 Before Class:
Chapter 9.1-9.6

Class:
Exceptional Flow Control: Signals (Signal Handling Example)
Virtual Memory Concepts
31 

April
Monday T Wednesday R F
1 
4 
 Before Class:
Chapter 9.7-9.8
Chapter 9.9

Class:
Virtual Memory Concepts (Allocating Pages)
Virtual Memory Systems
Malloc Basic

Due:
Forks And Signals
5 
6 
 Before Class:
Chapter 9.9

Class:
Malloc Advanced
7 
8 
11 
 Before Class:
Chapter 10

Class:
Pointers Review
System-level I/O
Malloc Recitation
12 
13 
 Before Class:
Chapter 11

Class:
System-level I/O
Network Programming I
14 
15 
18 
 Before Class:
Chapter 12

Class:
Network Programming I
Network Programming II
Concurrent Programming I
19 
20 
 Due:
Malloc
21 
22 
25 
 Class:
Concurrent Programming I
Concurrent Programming II
26 
27 
 Class:
exam2
28 
29 

May
Monday T Wednesday R F
2 
3 
4 
 Due:
Final Project
5 
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