11 Jan 2013

CS 429 (Computer Organization and Architecture) Syllabus

Texts

1. K+R The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) [Paperback] Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, 1988.
2. B+O Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition) Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron, 2010.

Course Content

1. Intro to Class
2. How to Program in C
3. K+R Chapter 2, Basic elements
4. K+R Chapter 3, Statements
5. K+R Chapter 4, Functions, procedures
6. K+R Chapter 5, Points and Arrays
7. K+R Chapter 6, Structures
8. K+R Chapter 7, Input, Output
9. Header files,
10. C tool chain
11. Intro to Computer Architecture
12. B+O Chapter 2, Memory and Information encodings
13. B+O Chapter 3, Machine Language Instructions
14. B+O Chapter 4, Processor Architecture
15. Computer Architecture
16. Input/Output, Interrupts
17. Caching
18. Pipelines
19. Performance

Historical record of daily presentations

Scanned Instructor's Notes