GWU

CS 3410

Systems Programming

GWU Computer Science

Schedule

Some Notes:

Spring 2021

Date Topic Prep Due Issued
Week 1
Mon 01/11 Lecture 1 + Practical 1: Class Mechanics; Smart Things; Electronics Refresher. Slides in Piazza Resources.
Wed 01/13 Lecture 2 + Practical 2: Embedded System Design; Working with GitHub Classroom assignments. Slides in Piazza Resources.
Thur 01/11 Intro Lab: More Electronics!
Fri 01/12 Homework 00: Practice with C (Piazza Resources; Due 01/26)
Date Topic Prep Due Issued
Week 2
Mon 01/18 NO LECTURE, but watch video on setting git/GitHub/GitHub-Classroom.
Wed 01/20 NO LECTURE.
Thur 01/11 Lab 2: Analog Processing and Prep: Rainbow Tuner Homework 01: Rainbow Tuner (Due 02/01)
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Week 3
Mon 01/25 Lecture 4: States and Input processing
Wed 01/27 Lecture 5 + Practical 5: States and Input processing.
Thur 01/28 Lab 3: Nuclear Football (Due 02/02)
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Week 4
Mon 02/01 Lecture 6 + Practical 6: Low-Level Control.
Wed 02/03 Lecture 7 + Practical 7: Communication Protocols
Thur 02/04 Lab 4: I2C Exchange (Due 02/09) Homework 02: Let's Play a Game(Due 02/17)
Date Topic Prep Due Issued
Week 5
Mon 02/08 Lecture 8 + Practical: Testing the Multipass-Ubuntu+VSCode setup.
Wed 02/10 Lecture 9: OS Basics
Thur 02/11 Lab 5: My LS, working with metadata
Date Topic Prep Due Issued
Week 6
Mon 02/15 PRESIDENT'S DAY.
Wed 02/17 Lecture 10: Introduction to Memory Management
Thur 02/18 Lab 6: HW02 Demos and Virtual Memory exercises
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Week 7
Mon 02/22 MISSED LECTURE (Technical Difficulties).
Wed 02/24 Lecture 11: Memory Management: Virtual Address Spaces
Thur 02/25 Lab 7: Virtual Memory by the numbers
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Week 8
Mon 03/01 Lecture 12: Replacement policies and Cache mapping Homework 03: Serial comms: Ubuntu Guest <--> Fake Arduino(Due 03/11)
Wed 03/03 Lecture 13: mmap (memory mapping)
Thur 03/04 Lab 8: mmap lab
Date Topic Prep Due Issued
Week 9
Mon 03/08 Lecture 14: Exceptional Control Flow: Exceptions and Processes
Wed 03/10 Lecture 15: Exceptional Control Flow: More Processes
Thur 03/11 Lab 9: HW03 Demo + Fork Lab
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Week 10
Mon 03/15 To Sun 03/21
SPRING BREAK
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Week 11
Mon 03/22 Lecture 16: Shells and Signals
Wed 03/24 Lecture 17: More Signals, and Jumps
Thur 03/25 Lab 10: Intro-HW04
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Week 12
Mon 03/29 Lecture 18: Dynamic Memory Allocation Final Project Part 1 (Due April 15th)
Wed 03/31 Lecture 19: More Dynamic Memory Allocation
Thur 04/01 Lab 11: Work On Final Project Part 1
Date Topic Prep Due Issued
Week 13
Mon 04/05 Lecture 20: Inter-Process Communication
Wed 04/07 Lecture 21: More Inter-Process Communication
Thur 04/08 Lab 12: Work On Final Project Part 1
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Week 14
Mon 04/12 Lecture 22: Explanation for Final Evaluation; Intro Final Project Part 2; Review Final Project Part 2 (due 04/26)
Wed 04/14 Lecture 23: Intro: Study Guide and Review
Thur 04/15 Lab 13: Demo-Final Project Part 1 Final Project Part 1
Date Topic Prep Due Issued
Week 15
Mon 04/19 Lecture 24: Review
Wed 04/21 Lecture 25: Final Assessment Check + Review Final Video Presentation (Due Thursday, 04/29 Designated Monday)
Thur 04/22 Lab 14: Work On (OR DEMO) Final Project Part 2
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Week 16
Mon 04/26 Lecture 26: Demo Final Project Part 2 Final Project Part 2
Wed 04/28 NO LECTURE
Thur 04/29 Designated Monday: Used if needed Final Video Presentation (one per Team)
Date Topic Prep Due Issued
FINALS
Wednesday 05/05 CSC3410 Final Interview (Blackboard) 10:20 AM to 12:20 PM