| Week | Topics and Exams |
Reading, Homeworks and Handouts |
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| Jan. 9 | Course Intro and Numerical Representation | Reading: P&H, Chapter 1(lightly); Sections 3.1, 3.2(leave out Fig 3.1); Also Google and then memorize the "SI prefixes" |
| Jan. 15 | Introduction to the C Programming Language | Reading: K&R, Chapters 1 - 5; Homework 1[.pdf] ; you can submit your solution through the Blackboard entry for this class. |
| Jan. 23 | C structures; strings; memory management; start MIPS | Reading: K&R, Sec. 5.5(on character pointers), Chapter 6(on structures), Sec. 7.8.5(on malloc), Sec. 8.7(on heap memory allocation); (starting MIPS) P&H, Sec 2.1 -- 2.3
For another viewpoint, here are Brian Harvey's
notes on C; |
| Jan. 30 | MIPS Assembly Language | Reading: P&H, Sec 2.2 : instructions 2.3 : registers, memory, and immediate constants 2.7 : decisions, including if-statements and loops 2.8 : procedures. Examples of MIPS expressions and functions. |
| Feb. 7 | MIPS Assembly Language; MIPS code examples [.pdf]; Calling functions [.pdf] |
Reading: same sections in P&H as last week Using registers $s0 - $s7 Table of syscalls Homework 2 Homework 2 in large print and Guide to programming sprintf; Guide to programming sprintf in large print Simplified example: sprintd |
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