CSE 376 Calendar (Spring 2021)

Check this page frequently for schedule changes. Click on any available link under "Class" to see notes for that lecture (and optional code next to it).
Class Date Day Topic Reading Homework
1 02/01/21 Mon first class (no class -- snow day)    
2 02/03/21 Wed first class, take 2 (intro)    
3 02/08/21 Mon Systems research, memory pyramid, why computers "become" slow   Systems research overview
4 02/10/21 Wed quiz overview, Unix/C intro   HW1 and HW1 Grading Criteria
5 (code) 02/15/21 Mon quiz cont., Unix/C overview   How to use GDB
6 (code) 02/17/21 Wed syscall error handling and efficiency    
7 (code) 02/22/21 Mon error handling (goto's), decomposing HW1, getopt    
8 (code) 02/24/21 Wed debugging, std* redirecting    
9 03/01/21 Mon crypto intro   HW1 due (Tuesday, 3/2/21 @ 7:00pm ET (19:00 ET)
10 03/03/21 Wed Makefiles   HW2 and HW2 Grading Criteria
11 (code) 03/08/21 Mon Common C bugs, memory management intro.    
12 (code) 03/10/21 Wed memory management, cont., PROT_* flags, ElectricFence    
13 (code) 03/15/21 Mon malloc, malloc/free bugs    
14 (code) 03/17/21 Wed malloc/free bugs cont, redzones, pointers intro   Why we need double and triple pointers
15 (code) 03/22/21 Mon transmit/store numbers and pointers, endian-ness, out-of-band data structs   HW2 due (Tuesday, 3/23/21 @ 7:00pm ET (19:00 ET))
16 (code) 03/24/21 Wed stack memory, program hijacking Stack frame examples (XLSX) HW3 and HW3 Grading Criteria
17 03/29/21 Mon mmap intro, OS caches    
18 03/31/21 Wed read-ahead, file systems intro    
19 04/05/21 Mon file systems, cont.    
20 04/07/21 Wed OS internals re: file system syscalls    
21 04/12/21 Mon syscalls cont.   HW3 due (Tuesday, 4/13/21 @ 7:00 pm EST (19:00 ET))
22 04/14/21 Wed No Class    
23 04/19/21 Mon syscalls cont.   HW4 and HW4 Grading Criteria
24 04/21/21 Wed No Class    
25 04/26/21 Mon syscalls cont.    
26 04/28/21 Wed syscalls done.    
27 05/03/21 Mon shell scripts, lock types and behavior   HW4 due (Tuesday, 5/4/21 @ 7:00 pm EST (19:00 ET))
28 05/05/21 Wed producer-consumer async/distributed operations (last class)    
29 05/12/21 Mon THERE IS NO final exam    


Last Updated: Wed May 5 19:23:35 2021