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History of computer architecture: basic programming models

Assignments

Assignments would all be divided into two parts:

Part A must be attempted in lab and checked by a TA or instructor. Slow students can continue to work during office hours which should run after lab; however, part A is not explicitly graded in lab, more it is used to make sure students don't get stumped early. This part should be doable by good students in 10-15 minutes.
Part B has more extensive exercises but still should be doable by good students in an hour or so.

Part A and B are turned in within one week. There should also be optional exercises that are not graded, but that could occupy good students for multiple hours.

Potential assignments:

command line basics: standard in/out, command line pipes, standard commands, job control
basic strings and pointers (printf, scanf), pointer/array equivalence, gdb
Command line arguments, pointer arithmetic
running programs with execve, PATH, environment variables, basic malloc
dynamic buffers for file I/O, memory mapped I/O
fork, shared memory
sockets, netcat (TCP mainly, UDP optional)
libraries, linking, C->assembly, function calling conventions, ltrace, strace

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-# malloc, structs
+Assignments would all be divided into two parts:
+* Part A must be attempted in lab and checked by a TA or instructor.  Slow students can continue to work during office hours which should run after lab; however, part A is not explicitly graded in lab, more it is used to make sure students don't get stumped early.  This part should be doable by good students in 10-15 minutes.
+* Part B has more extensive exercises but still should be doable by good students in an hour or so.
+Part A and B are turned in within one week.  There should also be optional exercises that are not graded, but that could occupy good students for multiple hours.
+Potential assignments:
+# command line basics: standard in/out, command line pipes, standard commands, job control
+# basic strings and pointers (printf, scanf), pointer/array equivalence, gdb
+# Command line arguments, pointer arithmetic
+# running programs with execve, PATH, environment variables, basic malloc
+# dynamic buffers for file I/O, memory mapped I/O
+# fork, shared memory
+# sockets, netcat (TCP mainly, UDP optional)
+# libraries, linking, C->assembly, function calling conventions, ltrace, strace