CS351 - Computer Organization

General Information

This is the website for CS351 - Computer Organization taught by Steve Baker

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Lessons:

• Binary 1

  Review of number systems and Boolean logic, Binary operators and basic bit operations, Two's compliment, Adding and subtracting in Binary

• Binary 2

  Binary multiplication, Conversion of integers <-> ASCII, Endianness.

• The C programming Language:
  
  
  • C Lesson 1 - Data Literals, Comments, Variables and Expressions

    Covers data literals, code comments, variables, assignment, expressions and basic operators, and basic input/output (printf and scanf)

  • C Lesson 2 - Comparisons and Conditional statements

    Covers comparison operations, basic Boolean operators, compound statements, the if, if-else and nested if statements.

  • C Lesson 3 - Looping

    Covers the while and for loops and the control statements: break and continue.

  • C Lesson 4 - Functions

    Covers the functions: defining and prototyping, parameters and return values and scope: visibility of functions and variables in functions.

  • C Lesson 5 - Arrays and Strings

    Covers basic arrays and strings.

  • C Lesson 6 - 2D Arrays

    Covers 2+ dimensional arrays and introduction to pointers.

  • C Lesson 7 - Structured data

    Covers structured data (struct) and structure constants.

  • C Lesson 8 - File Input/Output

    Covers opening and reading from files, using fgetc/getchar and fgets functions and writing to files using fputc and fputs.

• GDB Howto

  GDB Command overview for debugging assembly programs using the TUI interface

• Asm Lesson 1 - The Central Processing Unit (CPU)

  Introduction to the CPU, registers, the flag register, assembly instructions and address/values.

• Asm Lesson 2 - Registers, Memory layout, System calls and NASM

  Parts of a register, Linux process memory layout, Register usage during system calls and the Netwide Assembler (NASM)

• Asm Lesson 3 - Machine Language / Instructions (part 1)

  Comparing data and jumps, C to Assembly translations

• Asm Lesson 4 - Machine Language / Instructions (part 2)

  Copying data, Looping, Functions and the stack, Arithmetic operations

• Asm Lesson 5 - The hardware stack

  Using the stack for temporary local variables.

• Asm Lesson 6 - The C library, The heap, C pointers in assembly

  Using the C library from assembly, The C dynamic memory heap allocation functions and C pointers to assembly guide

• Curses 1 - Intro

  Introduction to the curses library (non-required material)

• Curses 1 - Character attributes and colors

  Applying character attributes and colors (non-required material)