CSCE 312 Computer Organization
Lecture 0: Course Administration
EJ Kim
ejkim@cse.tamu.edu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
338B Bright
979-845-3660
http://courses.cse.tamu.edu/ejkim/312
CSCE 312: Computer Organization
• Class Schedule
– Lectures MWF 03:00PM ~ 03:50PM HECC 200
– Labs
• CSCE312-501 F 04:00 pm-05:40 pm RDMC 111C
• CSCE312-502 F 10:20 am-12:00 pm RDMC 111C
• CSCE312-503 F 12:20 am-02:00 pm RDMC 111C
• Instructor: EJ Kim
– Office Hour: MW 10:10AM ~ 10:40AM.
– Office: HRBB 338B
• TA: Jiayi Huang (HRBB 335)
– Email: jyhuang@cse.tamu.edu
CSCE 312: Computer Organization
• Books
– Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective,
Randal Bryant and David O’Hallaron, Prentice Hall,
2011 (2nd edition)
– Digital Design, Frank Vahid, John Wiley & Sons, 2011
(2nd edition)
• Optional Reference
– The C Programming Language, 2nd Ed. (ANSI C
version) or later, Kernighan & Ritchie, Prentice Hall
• Helpful in learning the operating system and programming
environment
Course Overview
• The goal of this course is to introduce the fundamental
organization and structure of computer systems.
• Topics include:
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Computer systems (overview)
Data representation
Machine language
Processor architecture
Memory hierarchy
Linking
Exception control flow
Virtual memory
System level I/O
Programmer Perspective
• Traditional Computer Organization
courses are presented in a bottom-up
(hardware-oriented) fashion
• We will take a top-down approach, that is,
a software-oriented or “programmer’s
perspective” of computer systems
Prerequisites
• CSCE 221
• Mastery of data structures including list,
stack, and queue
• Familiarity with recursion
• Some knowledge of complexity analysis
Grading
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Homework
Labs
Quizzes
Final Exam
Project
• No midterm
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Assignments
• Homework assigned ~bi-weekly
• Mix of individual and team assignments,
which will include programming exercises
and problems from your textbooks
• Assignments will be due at the beginning
of the class
Programming
• Computing platform: Linux
• Programming languages: C and Y86
Assembly
• All programming must follow the JDE
Coding Standard (see the course Web
page,
http://www.cse.unl.edu/~goddard/Courses/
CSCE310J/StandardHandouts/JdeCoding
StandardV3.pdf)
• Program correctness is assumed…
Quizzes
• Five quizzes will be given and no midterm
• 25 minutes in length
• Format
– Brief explanation of concepts based on the
reading assignment for pending lecture
– Questions on material already discussed in
class
Homework
• Late home work will have penalty @ 25%
per day
• Genuine difficulties must be discussed
with instructor and TA
• Do not cut classes to do your homework
Earning Grades in this Course
• Want to get an “A” grade?
– Attend all classes, do homework, do reading,
do labs, do projects, participate in class
• Want to get a “D” grade (or worse)?
– Skip class, skip assignments, do not do
reading, do not be attentive or avoid taking
notes in the class, do not study
Summary
• Read syllabus on course details
• We shall study computer organization from
a programmer’s perspective
• A lot of work in the class
• Key knowledge about the
hardware/software interface