Computer-Organization
UCLA Computer Science 33, Fall 2018. Introduction to Computer Organization Professor Paul Eggert
Beomjoo Kim grade: A+ (98/100)
Textbook
Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, 3rd edition (CS:APP3e), Prentice Hall (2016). ISBN 0-13-409266-X. Errata are available.
Schedule
This schedule is tentative and most likely will be revised. Among other things, the assignments are not yet cast in stone. More assignments may be added.
| date | due | readings | lecture topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09-27 R | 1. Introduction | ||
| 10-02 T | §1–§2.3, §2.5 | 2. Integers | |
| 10-04 R | §3–§3.5 | 3. Machine-level programming basics | |
| 10-05 F | HW | ||
| 10-09 T | §3.6 | 4. Control | |
| 10-11 R | Data Lab | §3.7 | 5. Procedures |
| 10-16 T | §3.8–§3.9 | 6. Data structures | |
| 10-18 R | HW | §3.10, §3.12 | 7. Pointer problems |
| 10-23 T | midterm 1 | ||
| 10-25 R | HW | §2.4, §3.11 | 8. Floating point |
| 10-30 T | Pexex Lab | §5.1–§5.8 | 9. Program optimization |
| 11-01 R | §5.7–5.15 | 10. Instruction-level parallelism | |
| 11-06 T | §6 | 11. The memory hierarchy | |
| 11-08 R | HW | §12–§12.4 | 12. Thread-level parallelism |
| 11-13 T | Catching up | ||
| 11-15 R | midterm 2 | ||
| 11-20 T | Smashing Lab | §12.5–12.8 | 13. Synchronization |
| 11-27 T | §10 | 14. I/O | |
| 11-29 R | HW | §9 | 15. Virtual memory |
| 12-04 T | §7 | 16. Linking | |
| 12-06 R | OpenMP Lab | §8, Appendix A | 17. Exceptions and errors |
The following textbook chapters are useful and entertaining but are not part of this course: §4, §11.
All assignments are due at 23:55 on the date specified.
The final exam is three hours and will be held at the time scheduled by the registrar.