ASSIGNMENT items due times are 11:59PM on the listed date. Read the READ items before class on the day where they appear. Homework submissions via Moodle.

M Jan 2

Yay! Two more days of break!

W Jan 4

F Jan 6

[READ] Bryant & O'Halloran 1.1-1.4, 2.1
[READ] An Introduction to Character Encodings (Ravi Suresh Mashru)
[ASSIGNMENT 1/7] Starting C
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M Jan 9

[READ] Bryant & O'Halloran 2.2-2.3
[READ] Pointer basics (Stanford)
[READ] The 5-Minute Guide to C Pointers (Dennis Kubes)
[VIDEO] (3:11) Binky Pointer Fun Video C (Nick Parlante)
[LAB] In class today. Playing with data representation
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W Jan 11

[READ] The Descent to C (Simon Tatham)
[READ] An Introduction to Character Encodings (Ravi Suresh Mashru)
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F Jan 13

[VIDEO] (21:48) The queues assignment (how the compiler treats queue.h versus queue.c)
[VIDEO] (16:30) C header files (how the compiler treats queue.h versus queue.c)
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M Jan 16

[ASSIGNMENT 1/16, 8:30AM] Queues in C
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W Jan 18

[READ] Review sections 2.1.6-2.1.9 of Bryant & O'Halloran on bitwise and logical operations in C
[QUIZ 1/18] C and data representation. You may retake this quiz as many times as you wish before the deadline (11:59PM on the listed date). Your score will be the maximum score of all your retakes.
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F Jan 20

[READ] Read sections 3.1-3.3 of Bryant & O'Halloran to get started thinking about assembly language
[ASSIGNMENT 1/22] Bits & character encodings
[LAB] Weird integer stuff in C
[READ] Sign extension
[READ] Integer promotion in C
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M Jan 23

W Jan 25

[READ] Use sections 3.3-3.6.7 of Bryant & O'Halloran as a reference as you work on assembly language homework
[LAB] I will demo this material in class, but you should work through the lab outside class. Intro to debugging C code using gdb
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F Jan 27

[LAB] Reverse engineering from assembly to C We'll work on this together in class on 1/25 and 1/27.
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M Jan 30

[EXAM] In-class exam. Meet in Olin 304/306/308.

W Feb 1

[LAB] C to asm experiments
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F Feb 3

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M Feb 6

Woohoo, midterm break! 🥳
[VIDEO] (38:54) gdb & the bomb-defusing lab
[VIDEO] (20:45) Sample bomb walkthrough
A gdb quick reference targeted at the bomb project

W Feb 8

F Feb 10

[ASSIGNMENT 2/12] Defusing "bombs" with gdb
[LAB] (outside class) Sample bomb to help you get started
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M Feb 13

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W Feb 15

[READ] Bryant & O'Halloran 8.1-8.4
[READ] Read the main sections of the manual pages for fork, execlp, execvp, wait, and signal (and fflush, while you're at it)
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F Feb 17

[ASSIGNMENT 2/17] Implementing a command shell, part 1
[VIDEO] (31:22) Implementing a command shell, part 1
[VIDEO] (26:05) Implementing a command shell, part 2
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M Feb 20

[ASSIGNMENT 2/20] Implementing a command shell, part 2
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W Feb 22

F Feb 24

[READ] (Optional) Want to know about the history of buffer overflow attacks? Here are some links. Want a deep technical dive into one recent attack? Here you go. And here's a short summary of buffer overflow prevention techniques.
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M Feb 27

[ASSIGNMENT 2/27] Exploiting buffer overflows
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W Mar 1

F Mar 3

[READ] Bryant & O'Halloran 12.3-12.4 about threads
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M Mar 6

[ASSIGNMENT 3/6] Programming with threads
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W Mar 8

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F Mar 10

[EXAM, 5:00PM 3/15] Takehome final exam
🎉 Yay, last day of classes! 🎉
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