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Week 1
Mon: 08/25	Introduction to Computer Organization Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§1.1–1.3
Wed: 08/27	Introduction to MIPS Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§2.1–2.3 COD §§B.9–B.10
Week 2
Mon: 09/01	Labor Day - no class
Wed: 09/03	Registers, Instructions, and System Calls Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§2.1–2.3 COD §§B.9–B.10
Week 3
Mon: 09/08	Logic Operators, Binary Numbers Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§2.4–2.5	Due: Assignment 1
Wed: 09/10	Branching Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§2.6–2.7
Week 4
Mon: 09/15	Arrays Slides Printable	Reference: COD §2.8–2.10
Wed: 09/17	Procedures Slides Printable	Reference: COD §2.8	Due: Assignment 2
Week 5
Mon: 09/22	Exam Info, Non-Leaf Procedures, Negative Binary Numbers Slides Printable	Reference: COD §2.8 COD §§2.4–2.5
Wed: 09/24	Machine Code Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§2.6–2.7	Due: Assignment 3
Week 6
Mon: 09/29	Exam 1
Wed: 10/01	Gates and Truth Tables Slides Printable	Reference: How Does a Transistor Work? COD §§C.1–C.3
Week 7
Mon: 10/06	Combinational Logic Slides Printable	Reference: COD §C.3
Wed: 10/08	Constructing an Adder and an ALU Slides Printable	Reference: COD §C.5	Due: Assignment 4
Week 8
Mon: 10/13	Fall Break (no class)
Wed: 10/15	Sequential Logic Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§C.7–C.8	Due: Exam 1 Corrections
Week 9
Mon: 10/20	Registers & Memory Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§C.8–C.9
Wed: 10/22	Instruction Memory and Decode Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§C.8–C.9 COD §4.3	Due: Assignment 5
Week 10
Mon: 10/27	Exam 2
Wed: 10/29	The Datapath Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§4.1–4.3
Week 11
Mon: 11/03	Control Slides Printable	Reference: COD §4.4
Wed: 11/05	Instruction Execution Slides Printable	Reference: COD §§4.1–4.4
Week 12
Mon: 11/10	Pipelining Slides Printable	Reference: COD §4.5
Wed: 11/12	Pipeline Hazards, Caching Slides Printable	Reference: COD §4.7–4.8, 5.1–5.4	Due: Assignment 6
Week 13
Mon: 11/17	Introduction to C and the Command Line Slides Printable	Reference: C for Python Programmers
Wed: 11/19	Exam 3
Week 14
Mon: 11/24	The Basics of C Slides Printable	Reference: C for Python Programmers Learn the Basics tutorials	Due: Assignment 7
Wed: 11/26	Thanksgiving Break (no class)
Week 15
Mon: 12/01	Snow Day (class cancelled)
Wed: 12/03	Arrays, Pointers, and Memory Allocation Slides Printable	Reference: Strings tutorial Arrays tutorial Pointers tutorial
Final Evaluation Week
Thu: 12/11	Exam 4 Due on Blackboard (no class)