Fall 2015 CS 301: Assembly Language Programming

• Final course grades and detailed project feedback is on NetRun.  Thank you for a fun semester!
• The final exam was Friday, December 18, 10:15 am -- 12:15 pm, in our usual classroom Chapman 104.
• Project 2 final drafts are due Wednesday, December 16 on Blackboard (log in first).
• HW6 is available on NetRun, and covers threads, ARM, and CUDA.  It is due anytime Friday, December 11.
• Project 2 presentations are in class this Wednesday and Friday, December 7 & 11.
• Project 2 rough drafts are due Wednesday, December 2 on Blackboard (log in first).
• Project 2 deadlines start Wednesday, November 18 with the project topic (in class).
• HW5 is available on NetRun, and due anytime Monday, November 16.
• Project 1 final drafts were due Wednesday, November 4 on Blackboard (log in first).
• Midterm exam grades are on NetRun.  
• Project 1 presentations were in class Monday & Wednesday, October 26 & 28.
• Project 1 rough draft feedback is on NetRun (please read it!)
• Project 1 rough drafts are due on Blackboard (log in first) Wednesday, October 14.
• HW4 is available on NetRun, and due anytime Monday, October 12.
• HW3 is available on NetRun, and due anytime Friday, September 25.
• HW2 is available on NetRun, and due anytime Friday, September 18.
• HW1 is available on NetRun, and due anytime Monday, September 14.
• Use your alaska.edu email address to get a NetRun account, then log in to NetRun, and HW0 should be listed at the bottom of the screen under "CS 301: Homepage (Fall 2015)"  (if you don't see it, email me!).  There are 7 problems, numbered 0-6, and it's due anytime Friday, September 11.

Lecture Notes (and examples, and reference info!)

• Locality in memory and execution, 12/07
• Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) programming with CUDA, 12/04
• ARM processors, 11/30
• Optional pre-Thanksgiving lecture on Quantum Computing, 11/25
• Memory Cache, and Performance, 11/23
• Multicore via Kernel Threads, 11/18
• Context Switching: User-Level Threads (coroutines), 11/16
• Trap and emulate, 11/13
• Extra info: Intel SGX "enclaves" (not hardware yet!)
• Signals, 11/11
• System calls, 11/09
• Performance programming, 11/06
• SSE floating point in C++, 11/04
• SIMD: Parallel Floating Point with SSE, 11/02
• Floating point in assembly, 10/30
• Floating point numbers, 10/23
• Midterm exam in class Wednesday, 10/21
• Course review for midterm Monday, 10/19
• The Linker, 10/16
• Dynamic Binary Translation, 10/14
• Macros in assembly and C/C++, 10/12
• Inline assembly language in C++ code, 10/09
• printf: formatted output in plain C or assembly, 10/07
• Bits, signed, and bitwise operators, 10/05
• Malloc Internals, 10/02
• Objects in JavaScript, 09/28
• Structures, Strings, and Linked Lists in Assembly, 09/25
• Memory Allocation, 09/23
• Pointer Arithmetic and Arrays, 09/21
• Memory Addresses, 09/18
• All the registers, the Stack and push/pop, 09/16
• Calling functions in assembly, 09/14
• Loops and branches, 09/11
• Assembly language basics: arithmetic instructions, 09/09
• Language hierarchy, 09/04

Index of 2015 Fall

• Syllabus

Orion Lawlor

• Associate Professor, Computer Science
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2004 Ph.D.
• Computer graphics; parallel programming; robotics; 3D printing.
• Duckering 529
• 907-474-7678

Office Hours:

• By Appointment

• lawlor@alaska.edu