Home Page, CS 350/01-02, Fall 2009, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

Instructor: Dr. Jim Sasaki

SB 110 | 312-567-5176
| http://www.cs.iit.edu/~sasaki
Office hours: Mon & Wed 11:30 am – 12:30 pm; Thu 1 – 2 pm

Computer Science Dept

SB 235 | 312-567-5150 | 312-567-5067 (Fax)
CS Dept | Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 31st Street | Chicago IL 60616

Teaching Assistants

Seunggeun Lee (). • Office hours: Friday after lab (11 am - 1 pm), SB 108.
Matt Simpson (). • Office hours: To be announced.

Upcoming Events (also see Calendar)

Mon Nov 30: Lecture 25
Fri Nov 27: Thanksgiving holiday (no class)
Wed Nov 25: Thanksgiving holiday (no class)
Mon Nov 23: Lecture 24

Course News

Sat Nov 21: Fixed due time on Lab 13 (to 11:59 pm)
Fri Nov 20: Lab 13
Wed Nov 18: Posted Lab 13 and Final Project description.
Wed Nov 18: Lecture 23.
Mon Nov 16: Lecture 22 [skipped the function call section]
Fri Nov 13: Lab 12, due Fri Nov 20
Wed Nov 11: Posted Lab 12 and ancillary file.
Wed Nov 11: Quiz 3, Lecture 21. Posted notes.
Old News....

Working Calendar

Lecture: Mon & Wed: 10–11:15 am, SB 113
Lab: Thu (Sect 01) and Fri (Sect 02), 10–10:50 am, SB 108

Week	Day	Month	Date	Activity	Topic
1	Mon	Aug	24	Lec 1	Welcome \| Active Learning; Class topics \| Abstraction; Universal Computation Devices; Unsigned Binary Ints \| Postmortem
	Wed		26	Lec 2	MiniQuiz: Unsigned Ints \| Signed Ints \| Activity: Signed Ints \| Postmortem
	Fri		28	Lab 1	Signed and Unsigned Integers
2	Mon		31	Lec 3	Floating-Point Numbers, Octal and Hex Numbers \| Activity: Floating-Point \| Activity: Octal & Hex
	Wed	Sep	2	Lec 4	Characters, Logical Operations \| Review for Quiz 1
	Fri		4	Lab 2	Review for Quiz 1
3	Mon	Sep	7	Labor Day	(No class)
	Wed	Sep	9	Quiz 1	Weeks 1 & 2
	Mon		9	Lec 5	Ch. 3: Transistors; Switches \| Postmortem
	Fri		11	Lab 3	Transistors; Switches
4	Mon		14	Lec 6	Logic Gates & Truth Tables (Notes \| Activity) \| Postmortem
	Wed		16	Lec 7	Quiz 1 Solution \| Combinatorial Logic Circuits (Notes \| Activity) \| Postmortem
	Fri		18	Lab 4	Combinatorial Logic Circuits
5	Mon		21	Lec 8	Standard Combinatorial Circuits \| Storage Elements \| Activity: Storage Elements
	Wed		23	Lec 9	Sequential Logic Circuits; Finite State Machines \| Activity: Finite_State_Machines
	Fri		25	Lab 5	Storage Units and Sequential Logic Circuits
6	Mon		28	Lec 10	Ch 4: The von Neumann Model \| Activity: Simple Decimal Computer \| ~~Review for Quiz 2~~
	Wed		30	Lec 13	Quiz 2 Review \| LC-3 Basics & Calculation Instructions \| Activity: Missing Operations
	Fri	Oct	2	Lab 6	More Quiz 2 Review
7	Mon	Oct	5	Quiz 2	(Moved from Wed Sep 30) Weeks 3 – 5 (Review)
	Mon		5	Lec 12	LC-3: Data Movement (Notes \| Activity)
	Wed		7	Lec 13	LC-3: Control instructions (Notes \| Activity)
	Fri		9	Lab 7	LC-3 Control & Addressing
8	Mon	Oct	12	Fall Break	(No class)
	~~Wed Oct 14: Midterm Exam~~			Move Midterm Exam to Wed Oct 21
	Wed	Oct	14	Lec 14	The LC-3 Simulator (Notes \| Activity)
	Fri		16	Lab 8	LC-3 Simulator and Programs
9	Mon		19	Lec 15	The LC-3 Simulator; Midterm Review
	Wed	Oct	21	Midterm Exam	Weeks 1 – 7 [≤ Lecture 13, ≤ Lab 7]
	Fri		23	Lab 9	LC-3 Simulator & Programs II \| (Sample/Practice Pgms: printstring, readnbr, prtnbr)
10	Mon		26	Lec 16	LC-3 Assembler: (Notes \| Activity)
	Wed		28	Lec 17	Midterm solution \| Notes: Control Structures \| Activity: Possible Final Projects
	Fri		30	Lab 10	Control Structures
11	Mon	Nov	2	Lec 18	Notes: Ch.8: I/O \| Activity: FP ideas, I/O
	~~Wed Nov 3: Quiz 3~~			Move Quiz 3 to Wed Nov 10
	Wed		4	Lec 19	Notes: Ch 9 (TRAPs & Subroutines) \| Final Project Idea summary 1 \| Activity: FP Ideas & TRAPs/Subroutines
	Fri		6	Lab 11	Quiz 3 review & Final Project ideas
12	Mon		9	Lec 20	Notes: Stacks; Textbook's Stack Implementation \| Activity: Stacks & Final Project ideas
	Wed	Nov	11	Quiz 3
	Wed		11	Lec 21	Notes: Stacks, Interrupts, Calculator \| Notes: Interrupt Example
	Fri		13	Lab 12	The Calculator \| Textbook's Calculator files
13	Mon		16	Lec 22	Notes: The C Language; ~~Function Calls~~ \| Activity: The C Language
	Wed		18	Lec 23	Function Calls and Runtime Stack (Notes \| Activity)
	Fri		20	Lab 13	Search a table
14	Mon		23	Lec 24
	Wed	Nov	25	Quiz 4	Weeks 11 – 13
				Lec 25
	Fri	Nov	27	Thanksgiving	(No class)
15	Mon		30	Lec 26
	Wed	Dec	2	Lec 27
	Fri		4	Lab 14
16	Mon		7	Lec 28
Wed Dec 9 (10:30 am - 12:30 pm) (See Fall 2009 Final Exam Schedule)				Final Exam	(Comprehensive)

Wed Dec 9 (12:59 pm) ???				Final Project	(Description)

Future Topics

Electronics, signals, logic, and memory
Programs: Why store them in memory?
The LC-3: A little computer simple enough to understand.
Assembly language: Less horrible than machine language
I/O: Looking over a device's shoulder vs waiting for a tap on the back
Asking the computer to do something dangerous, like I/O
Stacks: A closet for old data
The C language: Been there, done that?
When a function calls a function..
Pointers and Arrays: Why are these in the same chapter?
gcc -S ?
Computer architecture at 15,000 feet

Old Course News

Mon Nov 9: Lecture 20.
Fri Nov 6: Lab 11
Wed Nov 4: Lecture 19. No Quiz 3 Lab 10 due.
Mon Nov 2: Lecture 18
Fri Oct 30: Lab 10, due Wed Nov 4
Wed Oct 28: Lecture 17. Return Midterms.
Mon Oct 26: Lecture 16. Lab 9 due at 11:59 pm.
Fri Oct 23: Lab 9
Wed Oct 21: Posted Lab 9 (due 11:59 pm Mon Oct 26).
Wed Oct 21: Midterm (60 min)
Mon Oct 19: Lecture 15, Midterm review. Lab 8 due.
Fri Oct 16: Fixed typo in calendar (there will be no lecture after the midterm).
Fri Oct 16: Lab 8. Reposted Lab 8 with more explanation of left-shifting.
Thu Oct 15: Post lab 8.
Wed Oct 14: Lab 7 due; Lecture 14.
Mon Oct 12: Fall Break [No class]
Fri Oct 9: Lab 7. Post Lab 7.
Wed Oct 7: Return Quiz 2; Lecture 13; post notes & activity.
Mon Oct 5: Posted Lecture 12 notes and activity; complete activity for Wed.
Mon Oct 5: Quiz 2 and Lecture 12
Fri Oct 2: Lab 6 (Quiz 2 review; not for grading)
Wed Sep 31: Posted Lab 6 (More Quiz 2 review; not for grading)
Wed Sep 30: Added final exam date to calendar.
Wed Sep 30: Quiz 2 Review and Lecture 11 (Basic ISA for LC-3)
Mon Sep 28: Lecture 10 (von Neumann Model); moved Quiz 2 to Mon Oct 5 (from Wed Sep 30)
Fri Sep 25: Lab 5
Wed Sep 23: Posted Lab 5. Labs will be due on Mondays from here on.
Wed Sep 23: Lecture 9; posted notes and activity.
Tue Sep 22: Posted Lecture 8 notes and activity.
Mon Sep 21: Lecture 8
Fri Sep 18: Lab 4
Wed Sep 16: Posted Lab 4.
Wed Sep 16: Lecture 7. Posted Quiz 1 Solution, notes and activity.
Mon Sep 14: Lecture 6
Sun Sep 13: Posted previews of Lecture 6 notes and activity.
Fri Sep 11: Lab 3
Wed Sep 9: Quiz 1 and Lecture 5
Mon Sep 7: Labor Day Holiday (No class)
Fri Sep 4: Updated TA info.
Fri Sep 4: Lab 2: Review for Quiz 1
Wed Sep 2: Posted after-class version of Activity: Review for Quiz 1
Wed Sep 2: Lecture 4: Characters, Logical operations; Activity: Review for Quiz 1.
Mon Aug 31: Posted notes and activities for Lecture 3.
Mon Aug 31: Lecture 3: Floating-Point Numbers, Octal & Hex numbers.
Fri Aug 28: Lab 1.
Wed Aug 26: Posted Lab 1, due at the beginning of lab on Friday.
Wed Aug 26: Labs will meet on Friday; Thursday people should attend Friday lab.
Wed Aug 26: Posted notes for classes 1 and 2.
Wed Aug 26: Lecture 2: Signed Binary Integers
Mon Aug 24: First class: Lecture 1: Welcome; Active Learning; Abstraction; Universal Computation Devices; Unsigned Binary Integers
Tue Aug 18: Posted course plan/syllabus
Sun Aug 16: The textbook is Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits & Gates to C & Beyond (2nd edition), by Yale N Patt, Sanjay J Patel, Patt Yale, ©2004 McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0072467509.

You should get your own textbook because the exams will be open book (but you can't share books).

Home Page: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~cs350

CS 350/01-02: Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2009

Instructor: Dr. Jim Sasaki

Computer Science Dept

Teaching Assistants

Upcoming Events (also see Calendar)

Course News

Working Calendar

Future Topics

Old Course News