CS 220 Course Materials, Fall 2019
CS 220 Course Materials
Fall 2019
General
Nand2Tetris Projects
Following Fall Break, Fridays will be used to explore special topics. This
schedule doesn't yet show these in-class labs.
- Introduction: Hello, World Below; Aug. 23, one day
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- Boolean Logic; Aug. 26, three days
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- Boolean Arithmetic; Sept. 4, three days
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- Sequential Logic; Sept. 11, four days
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- Exam I; Sept. 20
Covering Chapters 1--3.
- Machine Language Programming; Sept. 23, four days
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- Computer Architecture; Oct. 2, four days
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- Assembler; Oct. 14, four days
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- Exam II; Oct. 28
Covering Chapters 4--6.
- Virtual Machine Translator I; Oct. 30, four days
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- Virtual Machine Translator II; Nov. 13, five days
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In-Class Labs
- Lab 1: Check It Out From The Library, Oct. 18
How does source code become actual executable code?
- Lab 2: It All Depends Upon How You Look At It, Oct. 25
How are other types of data, such as strings and floating point numbers,
represented? How does the CPU know how to interpret bits?
- Lab 3: There's More Than One Way To Do This, Nov. 1
Hack is one example of an instruction set architecture. How does it
compare to two heavyweights -- x86 and ARM?
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