CPSC 213, Intro to Computer Systems, Sep 2010
Winter Term 1 (Sep-Dec), 2010-2011, University of British Columbia

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Details

Instructor: Tamara Munzner. email: tmm at cs.ubc.ca
Lectures: MWF 8:00-9:00am, Dempster 310
Instructor Office Hours: Mon 9:30-11:30am, or by appointment. In my office (X661)
TAs: Jimmy Wong (jimmywcm at cs.ubc.ca), Amir Mehrabian (mehrab at cs.ubc.ca), Cam Hassall (chassall at gmail.com), Nick Kim (ksh1204@hotmail.com), Nicholas FitzGerald (nicholas.fitzgerald at gmail.com)
UBC Course Calendar: 213 page
Marks: Access through URL https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~cs213/winter10t1/students/x0x0 (where x0x0 is your login id; be sure to use "https".)

Resources:

Schedule: by Modules

Unit Slides (PDF) Lectures Lab Topic Reading
0 1up, 4up, 16up W 9/8, F 9/10 1 Intro, Computation Overview Comp 1-2.1
1a 1up, 4up, 16up M 9/13, W 9/15 1 Numbers, Memory Comp: 2.2-2.3
Text (2nd): 3.1-3.4, 3.9.3
Text (1st): 3.1-3.4, 3.10
1b 1up, 4up, 16up F 9/18, M 9/20, W 9/22 2 Scalars, Arrays Comp: 2.4.1-2.4.3
Text: 3.8
1c 1up, 4up, 16up F 9/24, M 9/27, W 9/29 3 Instance Variables, Dynamic Allocation Comp: 2.4.4-2.4.5
Text (2nd): 3.9.1, 9.9, 3.10
Text (1st): 3.9.1, 10.9, 3.11
1d 1up, 4up, 16up F 10/1, M 10/4 4 Static Control Flow (Loops/If), Static Procedure Calls Text 3.6.1-3.6.5
1e 1up, 4up, 16up W 10/6, F 10/8, W 10/13 5 Procedures and the Stack Text 3.7, 3.12
1f 1up, 4up, 16up F 10/15, M 10/18 6 Dynamic Control Flow: Switch and Polymorphism Text (2nd): 3.6.7, 3.10
Text (1st) 3.6.6, 3.11
2a 1up, 4up, 16up W 10/20, F 10/22 7 I/O, DMA, Interrupts Text 8.1, 8.2.1, 8.5.1-8.5.3
2b 1up, 4up, 16up M 10/25, F 10/29, M 11/1,
W 11/3 		8 Virtual Processors and Threads, Scheduling Text (2nd): 12.3
Text (1st): 13.3
2c 1up, 4up, 16up F 11/5, M 11/8, W 11/13,
F 11/12, M 11/15 		9 Concurrency/SynchronizationText (2nd) 12.4-12.5, 12.6, parts of 12.7
Text (1st): 13.4-13.5, (no equivalent to 12.6), parts of 13.7
2d 1up, 4up, 16up W 11/17, F 11/19 - Virtual Memory Text (2nd): 9.1-9.2, 9.3.2-9.3.4
Text (1st): 10.1-10.2, 10.3.2-10.3.4
2e 1up, 4up, 16up M 11/22, W 11/24 - Operating System Text (2nd): 8.2, 8.3, 9.5
Text (1st): 8.2, 8.3, 10.5
2f 1up, 4up, 16up F 11/26, M 11/29 - Inter-Process Communication, Protocols Text (2nd) 11.1-11.5
Text (1st): 12.1-12.5
3 1up, 4up, 16up W 12/1, F 12/3, (F 12/10) - Review/Wrapup

Schedule: by Week

WeekLecturesLabOther
1 0.1, 0.2 -
2 1a.1, 1a.2, 1b.1 Lab 1 (on Unit 1a): out Mon 9/13, due Sun 9/19
3 1b.2, 1b.3, 1c.1 Lab 2 (on Unit 1b): out Mon 9/20, due Sun 9/26
4 1c.2, 1c.3, 1d.1 Lab 3 (on Unit 1c): out Mon 9/27, due Sun 10/3
5 1d.2, 1e.1, 1e.2 Lab 4 (on Unit 1d): out Mon 10/4, due Sun 10/10 Quiz 1: Wed 10/6
6 (hol), 1e.3, 1f.1 Lab 5 (on Unit 1e): out Tue 10/12, due Sun 10/17
7 1f.2, 2a.1, 1a.2 Lab 6 (on Unit 1f): out Mon 10/18, due Sun 10/24 Quiz 2: Wed 10/20
8 2b.1, MT, 2b.2 - Midterm: Wed 10/27. Tamara out of town all week, Mike Feeley guest lectures.
9 2b.3, 2b.4, 2c.1 Lab 7 (on Unit 2a): out Mon 11/1, due Sun 11/7
10 2c.2, 2c.3, 2c.4 Lab 8 (on Unit 2b): out Mon 11/8. no labs Thu 11/11 Quiz 3: Wed 11/10
11 2c.5, 2d.1, 2d.2 Lab 8 due Wed 11/17. Lab 9 (on Unit 2c): out Mon 11/15
12 2e.1, 2e.2, 2f.1 Lab 9 due Sun 11/28 Quiz 4: Wed 11/24
13 2f.2, 2f.3, TBD Lab 10 (on Unit 2c): out Mon 11/29, due Sun 12/5
Final: Wed 12/16 12-3pm DMP 310

Quizzes and Exams

DateItemMaterialSolution
Oct 6 Quiz 1 solutions
Oct 20 Quiz 2 solutions
Oct 27 Midterm sample sample solutions midterm midterm solutions
Nov 10 Quiz 3 solutions
Nov 24 Quiz 4 solutions
Dec 16 12pm Final review questions

Lab Materials

#DueMaterial
1 Sep 19 description, sm.zip, code.zip, solutions
2 Sep 26 description, snippets-1-2.zip, solutions
3 Oct 3 description, code.zip, snippets-3-4.zip, solutions
4 Oct 10 description, snippets-5-6.zip, solutions
5 Oct 17 description, snippets-7-9.zip, solutions
6 Oct 24 description, code.zip, snippets-A-B.zip, solutions
7 Nov 7 description, code.zip, solutions
8 Nov 17 description, code.zip, solutions
9 Nov 28 description, code.zip, solutions
10 Dec 5 description, code.zip, solutions
11 optional description
(Code with full a9 solutions not released until Mon Nov 29, but you can start earlier using your own implementation)

Lab Sessions

Labs start the second week of classes: Monday Sep 13.

Lab Day 1 Day 2 Room
Lab 1E Tue 10-11 am (Jimmy/Cam) Thu 9-11 am (Amir/Nicholas) X350
Lab 1D Tue 3-4 pm (Jimmy/Nick) Thu 2-4 pm (Jimmy/Nick) X050
Lab 1A Tue 4-5 pm (Amir/Nicholas) Thu 4-6 pm (Amir/Cam) X050
Lab 1C Wed 9-10 am (Jimmy/Nick) Fri 9-11 am (Amir/Nick) X350
office hours Fri 11am-1pm (Nick), 1-3 (Cam) Fri 3-5 (Nicholas) X350

Previous Versions

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