CS 2506 Resources

Student Survival Guide:  read this first!!

Textbook-Related Sites

• Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface, 5th Ed. (4th edition is probably OK)

Erratum sheet, CD contents, some other resources.

P&H Appendix on Digital Logic (4th Edition)

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 and CentOS

MIPS:  Datapath Visualization

• ProcessorSim MIPS:   free Java tool for visualizing the single-cycle MIPS32 datapth we'll be studying

MARS:  MIPS 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)

MS PowerPoint Viewer

• Free viewer from Microsoft; you may need this to see some of the course notes.

Logisim

• Logisim distribution site:  a tool for simulating logic circuits

Supplemental C/Linux Resources

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

Koofers CS 2506

• 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
• Fall 2015      Midterm  A supp B supp
• Spring 2015  Test 1  A supp B supp    Test 2  A B supp
• Fall 2014      Test 1  A supp B supp    Test 2  A B
• Spring 2014  Test 1  A supp B supp    Test 2  A B
• Fall 2013      Test 1  A B supp             Test 2  A B supp
• Spring 2013  Test 1  A supp B supp    Test 2  A  B  supp