| Date | Meeting | Material covered | Required reading | Other materials |
| 9/15 | Lecture 1 | Course overview; basic assembly (straight-line code and loops) | slides; handout; code | |
| 9/16 | Lab 1 | Beginning assembly | ||
| 9/17 | Lecture 2 | Control flow in assembly | slides; code | |
| 9/19 | Lecture 3 | Memory in assembly | slides | |
| 9/22 | Lecture 4 | Functions in assembly | slides; code | |
| 9/23 | Lab 2 | Recursive functions in assembly | ||
| 9/24 | Lecture 5 | More recursion practice; unsigned integers (and start of twos complement) | code; slides | |
| 9/26 | Lecture 6 | More numeric representation (floating point); C philosophy | Section 4.3 | number slides; Section 4.8; C slides; code |
| 9/29 | Lecture 7 | C similarities and differences with Java; intro to pointers | slides; code; handout | |
| 9/30 | Lab 3 | Connect 4 (practicing C) | ||
| 10/1 | Lecture 8 | Dynamic memory; using pointers as arrays | slides | |
| 10/3 | Exam 1 | |||
| 10/6 | Lecture 9 | Pointer arithmetic | slides | |
| 10/7 | Lab 4 | Debugging and buffer overflows | ||
| 10/8 | Lecture 10 | Buffer overflows; linked lists in C | slides | |
| 10/10 | Lecture 11 | More linked list code; intro to caching (direct-mapped) | code; slides | |
| 10/13 | Lecture 12 | |||
| 10/14 | Lab 5 | |||
| 10/15 | Lecture 13 | |||
| 10/17 | Lecture 14 | |||
| 10/20 | Lecture 15 | |||
| 10/21 | Lab 6 | |||
| 10/22 | No class -- Fall Institute Day | |||
| 10/24 | Exam 2 | |||
| 10/27 | Lecture 16 | |||
| 10/28 | Lab 7 | |||
| 10/29 | Lecture 17 | |||
| 10/31 | Lecture 18 | |||
| 11/3 | Lecture 19 | |||
| 11/4 | Lab 8 | |||
| 11/5 | Lecture 20 | |||
| 11/7 | Lecture 21 | |||
| 11/10 | Lecture 22 | |||
| 11/11 | Lab 9 | |||
| 11/12 | Lecture 23 | |||
| 11/14 | Lecture 24 | |||
| 11/17 | Lecture 25 | |||
| 11/18 | Lab 10 | |||
| 11/19 | Reading Day | |||
| 11/20 | Reading Day | |||