| Java References: Java homepage, Java language, Java Overview, Java in a NutShell, D. Flanagan, Ch 2 | |
| 4/22 | Simple Objects in Java |
| 4/24 | Object Inheritance in Java
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| 4/25-26 | Precept: Primality testing continued. |
| 4/26 | Exception Handling in Java; How Java differs from C.
Reading: Java in a NutShell, D. Flanagan, Ch 2 |
| 4/15 | Bignum arithmetic, Finish signal handling. |
| 4/17 | Quiz
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| 4/18-19 | Precept: Primality testing. |
| 4/19 | Compilation Pipeline; assembly languages; assemblers
Linking and Loading; relocation Readings: Paul 1.9, 9.1-8 |
| 4/8 | Finish exception handling,
Operating Systems; privileged instructions; modes; virtual resources; traps Readings: Paul Ch. 12. |
| 4/10 | UNIX System calls for processes
Readings: Kernighan&Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment, Sec. 7.4. |
| 4/11-12 | No precept this week. |
| 4/12 | UNIX System calls for signals and interrupts
Readings: Kernighan&Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment, Sec 7.5. |
| 4/1 | Procedure calls. |
| 4/3 | Quiz, Finish Procedure Calls.
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| 4/4-5 | Precept: Procedures in assembly language |
| 4/5 | Exception Handling notes
Exception handling code |
| 3/25 | Review Midterm, Condition Codes; carry and overflow; branches; control transfer
Readings: Paul Sec 4.6, 4.8-9 |
| 3/27 | Instruction Pipelining; delay slots; annul bit
Reading: Paul Sec. 2.5, 2.8-11. |
| 3/28-29 | Precept: SPARC Assembly language examples |
| 3/29 | Procedure calls
Readings: Paul Ch. 5, 7. |
| 3/11 | Basic SPARC Architecture
Readings: Paul Ch. 1, 2.1-4, Ch 8-9 |
| 3/13 | Arithmetic Instructions; data movement;
synthetic instructions; floating point
Readings: Paul Sec. 4.7, 4.10-12, 11.5-6, 11.10. |
| 3/14-3/15 | No precept this week |
| 3/15 | Midterm
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| 3/4 | Programming Style; layout and indentation; structure; efficiency
Readings: Pike, Notes on Programming in C; |
| 3/6 | Number Systems; arithmetic; two's complement; floating point
Readings: Paul Sec. 3.1-3, 4.1-5, 4.10, 11.1-4, 11.7-8. |
| 3/7-3/8 | Precept: Recursive data types |
| 3/8 | Finish numbers, Computer Organization; memory; assembly language; execution
Readings: Paul Ch. 1, 2.1-4, Ch 8-9 |
| 2/26 | Finish simple pointers, Structures; pointers to structures; unions; bit fields; typedefs
Readings: K&R Sec. 6.1-3, 6.7-9. |
| 2/28 | Quiz, Finish structures, etc. |
| 2/29-3/1 | Precept: Recursion and Linked Lists |
| 3/1 | K&R Sec. 7.3, B1.2. |
| 2/19 | Make; version control; RCS
Readings: make and RCS man pages |
| 2/21 | Arithmetic Operators; portability; conversions; evaluation order
Readings: K&R Sec. 2.4-12; Maquire Ch. 6. |
| 2/22-23 | Precept: Program Design |
| 2/23 | Pointers; pointer arithmetic; pointers and arrays; pointers to functions
Readings: K&R Sec. 5.1-12. |
| 2/12 | ANSI C Programming Language; program structure; declarations; scope
Readings: K&R Sec 2.1-3, Ch. 4; Maquire Ch. 5. |
| 2/14 | Quiz, Types; constants; arrays; strings; enumerations
Readings: K&R Sec. 4.11, 7.1, 7.4-7. |
| 2/15-16 | Precept: Abstract Data Types, Specifications, and Testing |
| 2/16 | C Preprocessor; macros; I/O
Readings: K&R Sec. 4.11 |
| 2/5 | Interfaces and Implementations; abstract data types; assertions
Readings: K&R Ch. 1; Maquire Introduction, Ch. 1-2. |
| 2/6-8 | Precept: Using GDB (and Netscape) |
| 2/7 | Quiz, Finish up Interfaces, etc. |
| 2/9 | Talk about Assignment 1 and go over Quiz. |