M Sep 11

• [READ] Course information
• [READ] Advice
• [LAB 9/11] VS Code & mantis Do this by the end of the day. We won't spend class time on actually doing this lab, though I'll give you a little guidance and field questions about it Wednesday and Friday.
• [SAMPLES] hello.c, character_counter.c
• Class notes

W Sep 13

• [READ] Bryant & O'Halloran 1.1-1.4, 2.1
• [SAMPLES] output.c, strings.c, args.c, arrays2d.c
• Class notes
• Slides

F Sep 15

• [READ] Bryant & O'Halloran 2.2-2.3
• [READ] Pointer basics (Stanford)
• [VIDEO] (3:11) Binky Pointer Fun Video C (Nick Parlante)
• [SAMPLES] sizes.c, charstar.c, pointers.c
• [ASSIGNMENT 9/15] Starting C
• Class notes

M Sep 18

• [VIDEO] (21:48) The queues assignment
• [VIDEO] (16:30) C header files (how the compiler treats queue.h versus queue.c)
• [LAB] In class today. Debugging with VS Code
• Class notes
• Slides

W Sep 20

• [LAB] More debugging in VS Code
• [ASSIGNMENT 9/21] Queues in C
• Class notes

F Sep 22

• [LAB] In class today. Data representation, part 1: characters
• Class notes
• Slides

M Sep 25

• [READ] Review sections 2.1.6-2.1.9 of Bryant & O'Halloran on bitwise and logical operations in C
• [READ] An Introduction to Character Encodings (Ravi Suresh Mashru)
• [READ] After you read the previous article, see if you can make sense of the encoding chart on the Wikipedia page for UTF-8. This will be important for the current programming assignment.
• Class notes
• Slides

W Sep 27

• [ASSIGNMENT 9/28] Bits & character encodings
• [LAB] Give this a try before Friday. Data representation, part 2: integers
• Class notes
• Slides

F Sep 29

• Class notes
• Slides

M Oct 2

• [Quiz 10/2 CANCELED; SEE SLACK FOR DETAILS] Quiz: C & data representation.
• Class notes (this includes a study guide for the exam)
• Slides

W Oct 4

• Class notes
• Slides

F Oct 6

• In-class exam

M Oct 9

• [READ] Sections 3.1-3.4 of Bryant & O'Halloran. In general, all of Chapter 3 will be a good reference for concepts during the next few weeks, but you'll also use online reference materials for some of the day-to-day details. Don't read Chapter 3 for memorization—read it for ideas.
• [LAB] Try this Getting started mapping C to i86_64 assembly
• Class notes
• Slides

W Oct 11

• Class notes
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F Oct 13

M Oct 16

• Midterm break. Have fun!

W Oct 18

• [ASSIGNMENT 10/18] asm to C puzzles
• Class notes
• Slides

F Oct 20

• [LAB] Intro to gdb
• A gdb quick reference targeted at the zoo project

M Oct 23

• [VIDEO] (29:04) The Zoo: Getting Started

W Oct 25

• [ASSIGNMENT 10/25] The Moose on the Loose: The Great Escape. (Your CS friends may have mentioned "the bomb assignment". This is that one, with a new story involving fewer explosions.)
• Class notes
• Slides

F Oct 27

• Class notes

M Oct 30

• [ASSIGNMENT 10/31] Exploiting buffer overflow
• [READ] Some advice for the buffer overflow assignment
• Class notes
• Slides

W Nov 1

• Class notes

F Nov 3

• Class notes
• Slides

M Nov 6

• [VIDEO] (31:22) Implementing a command shell, part 1
• [VIDEO] (26:05) Implementing a command shell, part 2
• [ASSIGNMENT 11/7] Implementing a command shell, part 1
• Class notes
• Slides

W Nov 8

• [ASSIGNMENT 11/11] Implementing a command shell, part 2
• Class notes

F Nov 10

• Class notes

M Nov 13

• Class notes
• Slides

W Nov 15

• [EXAM, 5:00PM Monday, 11/20] Final exam
• [SURVEY] Please fill out this 1-question survey about your C background before taking this class. The CS department is working on ways to improve students' introduction to C in both CS208 and CS251, and your answers to this question will help. Thanks!
• Class notes
• Slides

F Nov 17

• Reading day