ASSIGNMENTs are due on the day in which they appear below. Due time is 5:00PM if the due date is a Friday, or 11:59PM otherwise. Do READING/VIDEO items by class time on the date where they appear. LABs will happen during class. You will submit homework via Moodle.

M Sep 15

[READ] Course information
[READ] Advice
Join our class Slack workspace and introduce yourself in #general
[LAB] JupyterHub & mantis Do this before the first day of class if you have time.
[SAMPLES] Read through and experiment with these simple C programs: hello.c, output.c, and bitwise.c
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W Sep 17

[READ] Dive Into Systems (DIS), section 1.1 Getting Started Programming in C
[READ] DIS 4.6 Bitwise Operators
[READ] (or maybe [SKIM]) the DIS sections about print statements, if statements, functions, and arrays. Questions about other starter topics in C? Take a look at the rest of Chapter 1.
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Fri Sep 19

Sat Sep 20

[ASSIGNMENT] bits and bytes in C

Mon Sep 22

Tue Sep 23

Grace period: you may submit bits and bytes in C through the end of today

Wed Sep 24

[READ] 4.3 Signed Binary Integers
[READ] 2.8 I/O in C, up through the section about printf
[LAB] Debugging C programs with gdb. Try this before this day, when we'll discuss it in class.
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Fri Sep 26

[READ] 2.6 Strings and the String Library
[READ] UTF-8
[SAMPLES] strings.c, printing-bytes.c, args.c
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Sun Sep 28

[ASSIGNMENT] More bits and bytes: fun with character encodings

Mon Sep 29

W Oct 1

Grace period: you may submit More bits and bytes through the end of today
[LAB] Playing with memory.c (about sample program memory.c).
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F Oct 3

M Oct 6

[ASSIGNMENT] Tokenizer: fun with strings and dynamic memory allocation
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W Oct 8

[QUIZ] Data representation. See Moodle. You may take this as many times as you like through the end of today.
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F Oct 10

In-class closed-book exam. Have a good weekend!

M Oct 13

Compiler Explorer
[READ] 6 Under the C: Dive Into Assembly
[READ] 7. 64-bit x86 Assembly (x86-64)
[READ] 7.1. Diving into Assembly: Basics
[READ] 7.2. Common Instructions
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W Oct 15

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F Oct 17

[ASSIGNMENT] Assembly & C; three puzzles + one reverse-engineered puzzle
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M Oct 20

Midterm break. Zzzzz....

W Oct 22

[ASSIGNMENT, due 8:30AM on paper] (Optional) exam corrections
[ASSIGNMENT] Assembly & C: six of seven puzzles plus two reverse-engineered puzzles
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F Oct 24

[VIDEO] (29:04) The Zoo: Getting Started
[READ] C Debugging Tools is the Dive Into Systems chapter about gdb. Skim through this section so you'll know what kind of help the textbook is offering you.
[SAMPLE] minizoo.c (see compilation instructions in the comment at the top)
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M Oct 27

W Oct 29

[ASSIGNMENT] Escape from the Zoo: A Reverse Engineering Adventure
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F Oct 31 (boo!)

M Nov 3

[LAB] Command-line redirection operators
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T Nov 4

[ASSIGNMENT] Exploiting buffer overflow

W Nov 5

[LAB] Processes
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F Nov 7

[VIDEO] (31:21) Command shell, part 1 (fork, exec, argv/argc)
[VIDEO] (26:05) Command shell, part 2 (redirection)
[SAMPLES] Some programs relevant to the command shell assignment. forktest.c, exectest.c, argv.c, exectest_with_args.c, files.c, redirect.c, pipe.c, and shell208.c
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