CSc 3210 Computer Organization and Programming

Instructor: Dr. Michael Weeks
Computer Science Department
web-page: https://hallertau.cs.gsu.edu/~mweeks

Syllabus

• See the Class specific info
  
• See the Syllabus policies
  
• See the Tentative Calendar
• Topics

Homework and Exam Information

• Labs instructions
  Policies and pointers for turning in assignments
  The first ones are here
• Quiz 1 is January 29
• Homework 1 is due February 11
• Quiz 2 is February 12
• Midterm Exam is February 19
• Homework 2 is due February 25
• Quiz 3 is March 6
• Homework 3 is due March 24
• Quiz 4 is April 10
• Homework 4 is due April 14
• By popular demand, there will not be a Quiz 5
• By popular demand, there will not be a Homework 5
• See the Final exam schedule. Our Final Exam is Wednesday April 24th, 2024 13:30-16:00

Class Material

• binary to hex notes from January 17
• two's complement, subtraction, AND, OR, NOT from January 22
• Practice Problems 1
• floating point
• sign extending
• review on Feb 26
• recreated log from Feb26_2024
• offset notes from Feb28_2024
• notes_about_ch4 (we will talk about this on March 4)
• notes_about_ch6
• short circuit example
• table select, adapted for nasm
• algorithm from April 1, and part 2
• algorithm from April 3
• Example that prints the 3rd word from an input stream.

General Information

• dual degree program info
• Here is a great article about software bloat that I think is well worth your time to read. And no, it is not required for this class.
• Intel's failed 64-bit Itanium CPUs die another death as Linux support ends
• This is a link to the department's tutoring center
• Here's a page about the vi editor
• Here's a page about Unix commands
• Common Unix commands
• Tutoring Center
• example ssh and sftp