CS208 Introduction to Computer Systems
Monday, 22 September 2025

+ Homework debrief
- Toughest ones?
- Questions?
- Grace period through end of day Tuesday

+ This week
- Negative integers and ints
- Character encodings
- Quiz Wednesday (hex/bin/dec + negative integers)
- Command-line arguments in C
- Getting started thinking about memory
    including C pointers
- A programming assignment [to be posted this afternoon]

+ Integers
- You have 32 bits to store an int
    how are you going to represent negative integers?

+ Characters
- What's a character?
- How many do we need?
- ASCII
- Unicode
    - codepoint
- Encodings