0019: Calendar

Detailed Class Calendar

Below follows a day-by-day calendar for the class, including reading assignments, lecture topics, and courseworks. Lecture notes will be posted immediately after each lecture.

Class meetings consist largely of discussions of readings. They are designed under the assumption that students have already read the assigned readings. If you do not read the assigned material that appears on a day of the calendar before that day's lecture, you are likely to have difficulty following the lecture and discussion.

N.B. that all assigned readings and lecture contents are examinable (unless explicitly stated otherwise by the instructor).

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
10th Jan (Class not yet started)	11th Jan Class Introduction Lecture Notes: Class Introduction Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Unassessed Coursework 1 Out: Defusing a Binary Bomb due 4 PM, 20th January 2022	12th Jan	13th Jan x86-64 Assembly: Introduction Reading: CS:APP/3e 3.0 - 3.5 Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: x86-64 Intro	14th Jan
17th Jan	18th Jan x86-64 Assembly: Control Reading: CS:APP/3e 3.6 Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: x86-64 Control	19th Jan	20th Jan x86-64 Assembly: Control (cont'd) Lecture Recording (2 hours; via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Unassessed Coursework 1 Due, 4 PM Unassessed Coursework 2 Out: Implementing a Debugging malloc due 4 PM, 3rd February 2022	21st Jan
24th Jan	25th Jan x86-64 Assembly: Procedures, Data Reading: CS:APP/3e 3.7 - 3.10 Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: Tips on Pointers and Casts in C x86-64 Procedures, Data	26th Jan	27th Jan C Data Types, Pointers, Arithmetic; Undefined Behavior in C Reading: CS:APP/3e 2.1.2 - 2.1.3, 2.1.9, 2.2 - 2.3 Lecture Recording (2 hours; via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: C Data Types, Pointers, Arithmetic; Undefined Behavior in C	28th Jan
31st Jan	1st Feb Undefined Behavior (cont'd); Dynamic Memory Allocation in C Reading: CS:APP/3e 9.9, 9.11 Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: Dynamic Memory Allocation in C	2nd Feb	3rd Feb Dynamic Memory Allocation in C (cont'd) Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Unassessed Coursework 2 Due, 4 PM Assessed Coursework 3 Out: Implementing a Bit-Level LZW Compressor due 4 PM, 24th February 2022	4th Feb
7th Feb	8th Feb Lempel-Ziv-Welch Compression Reading: LZW (Welch, 1984); UCL IS login required The Memory Hierarchy Reading: CS:APP/3e 6.0 - 6.4 Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: LZW Compression Memory Hierarchy	9th Feb	10th Feb The Memory Hierarchy (cont'd) Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required)	11th Feb
14th Feb	15th Feb Reading week; no lecture today!	16th Feb	17th Feb Reading week; no lecture today!	18th Feb
21st Feb	22nd Feb CPU Caches Virtual Memory I Reading: CS:APP/3e 9.0 - 9.7 Lecture Recording (2 hours; via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: CPU Caches Lecture Notes: Virtual Memory Concepts	23rd Feb	24th Feb Virtual Memory II Midterm Rubric Midterm Exam (unmarked!) Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: Virtual Memory Implementation Assessed Coursework 3 Due, 4 PM Assessed Coursework 4 Out: Implementing Virtual Memory due 4 PM, 10th March 2022	25th Feb
28th Feb	1st Mar Virtual Memory II (cont'd) Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required)	2nd Mar	3rd Mar Virtual Memory II (cont'd) Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required)	4th Mar
7th Mar	8th Mar Processes and Exceptions Reading: CS:APP/3e 8.1 - 8.4 Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: Processes and Exceptions	9th Mar	10th Mar Processes and Exceptions (cont'd) Processes II: Pipes, Signals, Non-Local Jumps Reading: CS:APP/3e 8.5 - 8.7 Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes Pipes and Signals Assessed Coursework 4 Due, 4 PM Assessed Coursework 5 Out: Implementing a UNIX Shell due 4 PM, 5th April 2022	11th Mar
14th Mar	15th Mar Processes: Assessing fork() Processes II: signals (cont'd) Reading: A fork() in the Road Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required)	16th Mar	17th Mar Processes II: signals (cont'd) Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required)	18th Mar
21st Mar	22nd Mar System-Level I/O Reading: CS:APP/3e 10.1 - 10.4, 10.6 - 10.12 Concurrency and Locking in C Reading: CS:APP/3e 12.3 (except 12.3.8), 12.4, 12.5 (except 12.5.5), 12.7 Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: System-Level I/O Threads and Synchronization in C	23rd Mar	24th Mar Concurrency and Locking in C (cont'd) Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required)	25th Mar Last Day of Term 2
28th Mar	29th Mar Concurrency on x86-64; Avoiding Bugs in Threaded Code Lecture Recording (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required) Lecture Notes: Threads in C: x86-64 and Programming Tips	30th Mar Online Office Hours (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required)	31st Mar Online Office Hours (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required)	1st Apr Online Office Hours (via Zoom; UCL email Zoom login required)
4th Apr No office hours	5th Apr No office hours Assessed Coursework 5 Due, 4 PM	6th Apr No office hours	7th Apr No office hours	8th Apr No office hours