| Date | Meeting | Material covered | Required reading | Other materials |
| 1/6 | Lecture 1 | Course intro; begin MIPS assembly | slides; code | |
| 1/8 | Lecture 2 | Practicing control flow structures in assembly | slides; code | |
| 1/9 | Lab 1 | Printing primes (assembly control flow) | ||
| 1/10 | Lecture 3 | Memory in assembly | slides | |
| 1/13 | Lecture 4 | Classes/structs in assembly; functions | slides; code | |
| 1/15 | Lecture 5 | More functions; unsigned binary and hexadecimal numbers | slides; code; Section 4.1 | |
| 1/16 | Lab 2 | Functions in assembly | ||
| 1/17 | Lecture 6 | More binary: signed integers and floating point | slides; Section 4.3; Section 4.8 | |
| 1/20 | Lecture 7 | Introduction to C | slides; code; text (basically thru output) | |
| 1/22 | Lecture 8 | Differences with C: 1 pass compilation, no boolean, pointers | slides; handout | |
| 1/23 | Lab 3 | Connect 4 (practice with C) | ||
| 1/24 | Lecture 9 | Pointer errors; memory allocation; pointers as arrays and strings | slides | |
| 1/27 | Lecture 10 | Pointer arithmetic | slides | |
| 1/29 | Lecture 11 | struct; linked lists | slides; code | |
| 1/30 | Lab 4 | Linked list operations in C | ||
| 1/31 | Lecture 12 | Idea of caching; direct-mapped caching | slides | |
| 2/3 | Lecture 13 | Associative caching | slides | |
| 2/5 | Lecture 14 | Multiprocessor caching; virtual memory | slides | |
| 2/6 | Lab 5 | Simulating a cache | ||
| 2/7 | Lecture 15 | Threads | slides | |
| 2/10 | No class -- work on Midterm Exam | |||
| 2/12 | No class -- Day of Dialog | |||
| 2/13 | Lab 6 | Parallelizing the Mandelbrot set with pthreads | ||
| 2/14 | Lecture 16 | Race conditions; deadlocks; producer-consumer; locks and semaphores | slides | |
| 2/17 | Lecture 17 | Monitors; readers and writers; beginning of deadlock strategies | slides1; slides2 | |
| 2/19 | Lecture 18 | |||
| 2/20 | Lab 7 | |||
| 2/21 | Lecture 19 | |||
| 2/24 | Lecture 20 | |||
| 2/26 | No class | |||
| 2/27 | Lab 8 | |||
| 2/28 | Lecture 21 | |||
| 3/3 | Lecture 22 | |||
| 3/5 | Lecture 23 | |||
| 3/6 | Lab 9 | |||
| 3/7 | Lecture 24 | |||
| 3/10 | Lecture 25 | |||