CS 2506 resources

College of Engineering Statement on Covid-19 Precautions:  read this first!!

Student Survival Guide:  read this second!!

Textbook-Related Sites

• Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition: the Hardware/Software Interface, 6th Ed. (5th edition is probably OK)

Online content, some other resources.

Recommended resources from the Safari Database

• Write Great Code, Volume 1, R Hyde, No Starch Press (c)2004  ISBN 978-1-593-27003-2

• Write Great Code, Volume 2, R Hyde, No Starch Press (c)2006  ISBN 978-1-593-27065-0

• The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse, N Matloff & P J Salzman, No Starch Press (c)2008  ISBN 978-1-593-27174-9

VirtualBox and Linux

• Some notes on setting up VirtualBox (pptx pdf) and CentOS 8 (pptx pdf)

MARS:  MIPS32 Assember and Runtime Simulator

• MARS:   free Java tool for substantial subset of MIPS assembly language we'll be studying.

MIPS Assembly Documentation and Tutorials

• A pretty good tutorial introduction by Daniel J Ellard.
• MIPS32 Architecture Volume 1: Intro to the MIPS32 Architecture  (somewhat low-level descriptions)
• MIPS32 Architecture Volume 2: The MIPS32 Instruction Set (very good descriptions of all the MIPS32 instructions)
• MIPS32 Architecture Volume 3: The MIPS32 Privileged Resource Architecture (probably far more than you'll ever need to know)
• Categorized list of the basic MIPS instructions (according to MARS)

Logisim

• Logisim distribution site:  a tool for simulating logic circuits
• Digital logic examples (Logisim files, right-click and save link; make sure extension is .circ):

  4x1 multiplexor   simple adders    4-bit fast-carry adder   4-bit barrel shifter

Supplemental C/Linux resources

• Parlante's notes on C Pointers
• Parlante's notes on Essential C
• Wikipedia article on printf format specifiers
• Notes on C strings
• The Open Group site (use the INDEX search or go to the Alphabetic Index link)
• bash shell script for backing up files to rlogin: script  (updated 09142021)
• bash shell script for backing up files to shared directory on host OS: script  (updated 09142021)
• bash shell script for safer use of tar command:  script
• Short intro to make: pptx  pdf

Koofers CS 2506

• Fall 2021 Midterm  A  B   Supplement
• Spring 2020 Midterm  A  B
• Spring 2019 Midterm  A  B
• Spring 2018 Midterm  A  B
• Fall 2017 Midterm A  B
• Summer 2017 Midterm
• Spring 2017 Midterm A  B  supp
• Fall 2016 Midterm   A  B  supp
• Spring 2016   Midterm  A  B  C  D  supp