15-213 Lectures, Fall 2008

Files identified as ``pdf'' are in Adobe Acrobat format. Files identified as ``ppt'' are in Microsoft Powerpoint format. These were prepared using Microsoft Office on a Windows-based PC.

• Class 01 - Introduction (Aug 18):
  • Course Overview (Harras) (pdf, ppt)
  • Course Organization (Sakr) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 02 - Bits, Bytes, and Integers (Aug 20) (pdf, ppt)
  • Data Lab (L1) handed out
• Class 03 - Floating point (Aug 25) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 04 - Machine-Level Programming I - Introduction (Aug 27) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 05 - Machine-Level Programming II - Control Flow (Sep 1) (pdf, ppt)
  • Data Lab (L1) due 11:59pm, Sep 1
  • Bomb Lab (L2) handed out
• Class 06 - Machine-Level Programming III- Procedures (Sep 3) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 07 - Machine-Level Programming IV - Data (Sep 8) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 08 - Machine-Level Programming V - Advanced (Sep 10) (pdf, ppt)
  • Bomb Lab (L2) due 11:59pm
  • Buffer Lab (L3) handed out
• Class 09 - Memory Hierarchy (Sep 15) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 10 - Cache Memories (Sep 17) (pdf, ppt)
  • Code examples from lecture.
  • The P3, Nocona Xeon, and Opteron memory mountains.
• Class 11 - Exceptional Control Flow I (Sep 22) (pdf, ppt)
  • Code examples: Fork and exec examples.
• Class 12 - Exam 1
• Class 13 - Exceptional Control Flow II (Oct 6) (pdf, ppt)
  • Code examples: Signal examples.
• Class 14 - System Level I/O (Oct 8) (pdf, ppt)
  • Code examples: (IO Files, README)
• Class 15 - Virtual Memory (Oct 13) (pdf, ppt)
  • Code examples: Segfault examples.
  • Shell Lab (L5) due Oct 13th
  • Malloc Lab (L6) handed out
• Class 15+ - Memory System Case Study(Oct 13) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 16 - Linking (Oct 15) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 17 - Dynamic Memory Allocation I (Oct 20) (pdf, ppt)
  • Code examples: Library interpositioning techniques
• Class 18 - Dynamic Memory Allocation II (Oct 22) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 19 - Internetworking (Oct 27) (pdf, ppt)
  • Code example: dns.c
• Class 20 - Network Programming (Oct 29) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 21 - Network Programming II (Nov 3) (pdf, ppt)
  • Client / Server code examples: echoclient.c, echoserveri.c
• Class 22 - Web Services (Nov 5) (pdf, ppt)
  • Tiny Web Server: (tiny, tiny.tar)
• Class 23 - Exam 2 (Nov 10)
• Class 24 - Concurrent Programming (Nov 12) (pdf, ppt)
  • Code examples: (echo, README)
• Class 25 - Synchronization (Nov 17) (pdf, ppt)
• Class 26 - Program Optimization (Sep 18) (pdf, ppt)