Michael Ferdman

Introduces systems-level programming concepts using the C language and assembly language, and explores the correspondence of programming constructs in these languages. Topics include internal data representation, basic instructions and control structures, bitwise operations, arithmetic operations, memory management, pointers, function calls and parameter passing, linking, and loading. Included is an overview of computer architecture and organization topics, including von Neumann architecture, the memory hierarchy, and basics of pipelining.

• An ability to determine the machine-level representations of primitive and structured data types.

• An ability to determine the correspondence of program constructs written in C and in assembly language.

• An ability to implement non-trivial algorithms, and both static and dynamic data structures, in the C programming language.

   

• C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd ed. by K. N. King. W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. 978-0393979503

• Basics of computer architecture and organization

• Machine-level representations of data

• Basics of C programming

• Low-level programming in C

• C functions and program structure

• C I/O; Linking and loading

• C pointers and arrays

• Fundamental data structures in C

• MIPS architecture and assembly language basics

• MIPS assembly memory management

• MIPS assembly functions

• C/MIPS correspondence and cross-compilation
• Modern computer architectures

CSE220