CSE220: Schedule of Topics (Spring 2011)

This schedule should be regarded as a very rough and tentative plan that will likely change during the course of the semester.

Week	Class	Rec.	Date	Day	Topic	K&R	Britton	HW
1							Ch. 3
		R1	Jan 31	M	NO RECITATION
	C1		Feb 1	T	Administrative, Background
	C2		Feb 3	Th	Computer and memory organization, radix-k notation
2							Ch. 11
		R2	Feb 7	M	NO RECITATION
	C3		Feb 8	T	Radix conversion, fractions, integer encodings
	C4		Feb 10	Th	Floating point encodings, byte ordering, alignment
			Feb 11	F	Add/drop deadline
3					C Programming	Ch. 1
		R3	Feb 14	M
	C5		Feb 15	T	Character and text encodings, Intro. to C
	C6		Feb 17	Th	C compiler, C compared to Java, declaration and definition
4						Ch. 2
		R4	Feb 21	M
	C7		Feb 22	T	switch, while, do, for, conditions, printf, scanf
	C8		Feb 24	Th	sizeof, pointer variables
5						Ch. 3
		R5	Feb 28	M
	C9		Mar 1	T	Call by value and reference, auto and static
	C10		Mar 3	Th	Dangling pointers, arrays, strings
6						Ch. 4, 5
		R6	Mar 7	M
	C11		Mar 8	T	MIDTERM EXAM #1
	C12		Mar 10	Th	Multidimen. arrays, pointer arithmetic, structures
7						Ch. 6, 7
		R7	Mar 14	M
	C13		Mar 15	T	Pointers to structures, malloc()
	C14		Mar 17	Th	Examples with malloc() and free()
8					MIPS and Assembly Language Programming		Ch. 1
		R8	Mar 21	M
	C15		Mar 22	T	von Neumann Architecture
	C16		Mar 24	Th	RISC and MIPS
9
		R9	Mar 28	M			Ch. 5
	C17		Mar 29	T	MIPS instruction set
	C18		Mar 31	Th	System calls, loops, subroutines
			Apr 1	F	Last day to withdraw
10							Ch. 6
		R10	Apr 4	M
	C19		Apr 5	T	Register conventions, activation records
	C20		Apr 7	Th	Pseudo-instructions, addressing modes
11							Ch. 2
		R11	Apr 11	M
	C21		Apr 12	T	C/MIPS correspondence
	C22		Apr 14	Th	MIDTERM EXAM #2
SR
			Apr 18	M	SPRING RECESS -- NO CLASS
			Apr 19	T	SPRING RECESS -- NO CLASS
			Apr 21	Th	SPRING RECESS -- NO CLASS
12
		R12	Apr 25	M
	C23		Apr 26	T	C/MIPS correspondence
	C24		Apr 28	Th	C/MIPS cross-compiler
13
		R13	May 2	M
	C25		May 3	T	GCC/MIPS activation records, "make"
	C26		May 5	Th	Asssembling and linking
14
		R14	May 9	M
	C27		May 10	T	Dynamic linking
	C28		May 12	Th	Q&A
	F		May 19	Th	FINAL EXAM 2:15PM-4:45PM

Eugene W. Stark

Note: Although the schedule shows the chapters in K&R being covered in sequence, it is likely that this will only be roughly true. K&R is a reference book, and the chapter organization is to some extent dictated by topic, rather than pedagogy. Use the above schedule as a rough guide to keep track of whether you are keeping up with the material.