ASSIGNMENTs are due on the day in which they appear below. Due time is 5:00PM if the due date is a Friday, or 11:59PM otherwise. Do READING/VIDEO items by class time on the date where they appear. LABs will happen during class, and are due by the end of that same day. You will submit homework via Moodle.

M March 30

[READ] Course information
[READ] Advice
Join our class Slack workspace and introduce yourself in #general
[LAB] JupyterHub & mantis Do this no later than the first day of class.
[SAMPLES] Read through and experiment with these simple C programs: hello.c, output.c, args.c, and bitwise.c
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W Apr 1

[QUIZ] in class today
[READ] Dive Into Systems (DIS), section 1.1 Getting Started Programming in C
[READ] DIS 4.6 Bitwise Operators
[READ (or SKIM, as needed)] the DIS sections about print statements, if statements, functions, and arrays. Questions about other starter topics in C? Take a look at the rest of Chapter 1.
[LAB] command-line arguments and bits in C
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Fri Apr 3

[ASSIGNMENT] bases & bits: getting started with integers in C
[SAMPLES] byte-counter.c and byte-counter-better.c and strings.c
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Mon Apr 6

[QUIZ] in class today. Bitwise operators |, &, ^, and ~
[ASSIGNMENT] select-column: a simple CSV file parsing exercise
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Wed Apr 8

[READ] DIS 4.3 Signed Binary Integers
[READ] DIS 4.7 Integer Byte Order
[READ] DIS 2.6 Strings and the String Library
[LAB] characters and string functions
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Fri Apr 10

[QUIZ] in class today. Two's complement integers
[READ] UTF-8
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Sun Apr 12

[ASSIGNMENT] bits & character encodings: UTF-8 and its friends

Mon Apr 13

Wed Apr 15

[LAB] pointers in C
[READ] DIS 2.1-4: Various sections about memory and pointers
[VIDEO] tokenizer assignment info. Note that I have changed the get_tokens function signature since this video was made, but overall, the video is likely to be helpful.
[SAMPLE] memory.c
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Fri Apr 17

[ASSIGNMENT] tokenizer: making space for an array of strings
[INFO] Exam study guide
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Mon Apr 20

[QUIZ] on Moodle, about data representation. You can take it as many times as you wish. I'll record only your highest score.
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Wed Apr 22

In-class exam

Fri Apr 24

[LAB] (complete by Monday classtime) getting started with assembly language
[READ] DIS 6 and 7.1-4: Intel x86_64 assembly language basics. You really need to read these sections.
[RESOURCE] Compiler Explorer
[RESOURCE] Getting started with Compiler Explorer
[RESOURCE] x86-64 quick reference
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Mon Apr 27

Tue Apr 28

[ASSIGNMENT] Assembly & C: puzzles 1-3 plus one reverse-engineered puzzle

Wed Apr 29

[ASSIGNMENT, due 9:40AM on paper] (Optional) exam corrections
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Thu Apr 30

[ASSIGNMENT] Assembly & C: puzzles 4-6 plus one reverse-engineered puzzle

Fri May 1

Wed May 6

[RESOURCES] Zoo stuff
- gdb quick reference, focused on the zoo project
- get your zoo here
- view zoo progress here
- [VIDEO] (29:04) The Zoo: Getting Started
- [SAMPLE] minizoo.c (see compilation instructions in the comment at the top)
[LAB] Debugging C programs with gdb
[READ] C Debugging Tools is the Dive Into Systems chapter about gdb. Skim through this section so you'll know what kind of help the textbook is offering you.
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Fri May 8

Mon May 11

[LAB] (finish by May 12) Command shells and redirection
[ASSIGNMENT] Escape from the Zoo: A Reverse Engineering Adventure
[READ] DIS 13 intro and 13.1-2 about processes
[SAMPLE] exitstatus.c
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Wed May 13

[VIDEO] (31:21) Command shell, part 1 (fork, exec, argv/argc)
[VIDEO] (26:05) Command shell, part 2 (redirection)
[SAMPLES] Some programs relevant to the command shell assignment. forktest.c, exectest.c, argv.c, exectest_with_args.c, files.c, redirect.c, and shell208.c
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