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. You will submit homework via Moodle.

M Jan 5

[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 Jan 7

[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.
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Thu Jan 8

[ASSIGNMENT] bases & bits: getting started with integers in C

Fri Jan 9

[SAMPLES] byte-counter.c and byte-counter-better.c and strings.c
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Mon Jan 12

[QUIZ] in class today. Bitwise operators |, &, ^, and ~
[ASSIGNMENT] select-column: a simple CSV file parsing exercise
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Wed Jan 14

[READ] DIS 4.3 Signed Binary Integers
[READ] DIS 4.7 Integer Byte Order
[READ] DIS 2.6 Strings and the String Library
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Thu Jan 15

[ASSIGNMENT] minigrep: some string functions in C

Fri Jan 16

[QUIZ] in class today. Two's complement integers
[READ] UTF-8
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Mon Jan 19

[ASSIGNMENT] bits & character encodings: UTF-8 and its friends
[SAMPLES] printing-bytes.c, pointers.c
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Wed Jan 21

[READ] DIS 2.1-4: Various sections about memory and pointers
[VIDEO] tokenizer assignment info
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Fri Jan 23

No class. I will be in the classroom with optional practice exercises, or in case you want to talk about pointers, homework, or whatever.
Worksheet about memory, etc.
Put all your layers on! It's cold out there.

Sun Jan 25

[ASSIGNMENT] tokenizer: making space for an array of strings

Mon Jan 26

Tue Jan 27

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

Wed Jan 28

Fri Jan 30

Exam

Mon Feb 2

[READ] DIS 6 and 7.1-4: Intel x86_64 assembly language basics. You really need to read these sections.
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Wed Feb 4

[ASSIGNMENT] Assembly & C: three puzzles + one reverse-engineered puzzle
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Fri Feb 6

[ASSIGNMENT, due 9:40AM on paper] (Optional) exam corrections
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Tue Feb 10

[ASSIGNMENT] Assembly & C: the rest of the assignment

Wed Feb 11

[VIDEO] (29:04) The Zoo: Getting Started
[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.
[SAMPLE] minizoo.c (see compilation instructions in the comment at the top)
[LAB] Debugging C programs with gdb
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Fri Feb 13

Mon Feb 16

Tue Feb 17

[ASSIGNMENT] Escape from the Zoo: A Reverse Engineering Adventure

Wed Feb 18

Fri Feb 20

[READ] Advice for the buffer overflow assignment
[SAMPLE] exitstatus.c
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Sun Feb 22

[ASSIGNMENT] Exploiting buffer overflow

Mon Feb 23

[LAB] Command-line redirection operators
[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, pipe.c, and shell208.c
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