CS301 – Fall 2003

Prof. Hartman

Announcements:

12/8/03 Homework #9 is due Friday, December 12^th by 3:30 pm. NOTE due at beginning of class!

11/19/03 Homework #8 due Wednesday, November 26^th by 4:45 pm.

11/5/03 Homework #7 is due Wednesday, November 12^th by 4:45 pm.

10/29/03 Homework #6 is due Wednesday, November 5^th by 4:45 pm.

10/22/03 Homework #5 is due Wednesday, October 29^th by 4:45 pm.

10/15/03 Homework #4 is due Wednesday, October 22^nd by 4:45 pm.

9/29/03 Homework #3 is due Monday, October 6^th by 4:45 pm.

9/24/03 Solutions to the last two problems of Homework #1 are available.

9/24/03 Using NASM with Windows and Visual C++

9/22/03 Homework #2 is dues Monday, September 29^th by 4:45 pm.

9/15/03 As you probably notice, I didn’t get Homework #1 up until this morning, so it is due Monday, September 22^nd at 4:45 pm.

9/6/03 Homework #0 is due Monday, September 8^th by 4:45 pm.

Links:

• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (CS:APP) (our text) has an excellent web page.
• Paul Carter’s PC Assembly Language – the (free, online) auxiliary text we are using for this class.
• NASM – the assembler we will be using in this class
• A local copy of the NASM documentation in PDF or HTML.
• Assembly language style guidelines – A good set of rules to follow to make your programs readable.
• A whole page of Pentium architecture links.
• The Intel Pentium Architecture documentation
• The Intel Itanium Architecture documentation
• Randall Hyde’s Assembly Language Page – The author of another online text about Assembly Language Programming, Randall Hyde has links here to his book along with a ton of other useful 80x86 assembly information.
• X86 assemblers – a page full of links about assemblers and assembly language programming.
• Adding NASM as a tool in Visual C++ 6.0
• Developing Optimized Code with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
• Last years CS301 web page
• Intel’s FPU documentation

Handouts

• 9/6/03 Handout 1 – Syllabus
• 9/6/03 Handout 2 – Homework #0
• 11/7/03 Handout 3 – Encoding instructions (HTML format) (Word format (preferred))