CS208 Introduction to Computer Systems
Wednesday, 7 January 2026

+ Quiz

+ Bits & bytes
- 3:30-4:30 tomorrow, AND 329
- My experiences programming with AI help (and also "help")

+ Questions

+ Today
- Thursday's assignment
- Bitwise operators
- Miscellaneous sample code

+ "Bases and bits" assignment
- The package structure
    - tar files
    - readme
    - source code
    - make and Makefile
- Reading specs: bases-and-bits.h
- Thoughts about approaches to the two functions

+ Bitwise operators
- char, int, long
- &, |, ^, ~, >>, <<
- assert(...)

+ Samples in general
- What should you do when studying one?
- Pedagogical comments vs. production comments

+ Samples
- hello.c
- args.c
- bitwise.c
- output.c