Schedule

Below is a preview of our week-by-week plan for the entire quarter. There may be slight adjustments and rearrangements as we go. The schedule for the final project is set and will not change.

In the readings below, K&R refers to Kernighan and Ritchie's classic text The C Programming Language (accessible via Stanford's subscription to Safari Books Online). Nick Parlante's EssentialC is another great C reference. Please do the recommended readings before lecture for best effect!

Date	Topics/Readings
Week 1
Lecture Mon 9/26	Introduction and Welcome ( slides) Readings: A fun read on how the Raspberry Pi came to be for a taste of the adventure to come. For background, review our guides on electricity, binary/hexadecimal numbers, and the unix command line. Bookmark this collection of unix video tutorials that were prepared for CS107 students. These videos cover basic concepts, common utilities, development tools, and productivity features. I also recommend Steven Wolfram's blog post Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace for a nice description of Charles Babbage's and Lady Ada Lovelace's roles in developing the concept of a general-purpose computer.
Lab/assign	Lab 0: Orientation ( writeup) Please do the Lab 0 prelab preparation before coming to lab.	Assignment 0: Git oriented ( writeup)
Lecture Wed 9/28	ARM processor and architecture ( slides, code ) Read Baking Pi ( intro, lesson1, lesson2 ) and skim Carl Burch's Intro to ARM assembly. Here is a link to the VisUAL simulator demoed in lecture.
Week 2
Lecture Mon 10/3	ARM assembly and machine code ( slides, code ) Before lecture, read/skim sections A3.1-A3.4 and A3.11 from the ARM Instruction Set Architecture manual. Our one-page guide to ARM. An interactive demo of ARM immediate value encoding. A tribute to how much can be done with just an 8-bit value and barrel shifter! Enjoy Danny Cohen's article Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace on the history of little-endian vs. big-endian.
Lab/assign	Lab 1: Setup your Raspberry Pi ( writeup) Please do the Lab 1 prelab preparation before coming to lab.	Assignment 1: Implement a Larson Scanner
Lecture Wed 10/5	From Assembly to C
Week 3
Lecture Mon 10/10	C Pointers and Arrays
Lab/assign	Lab 2: Below C Level	Assignment 2: Implement a Clock
Lecture Wed 10/12	C Functions
Week 4
Lecture Mon 10/17	Communication and the Serial Protocol
Lab/assign	Lab 3: Debugging and Testing	Assignment 3: Implement a String Formatting Library
Lecture Wed 10/19	Modules, Libraries, and Linking
Week 5
Lecture Mon 10/24	Memory Management
Lab/assign	Lab 4: Linked and Loaded	Assignment 4: Backtrace and Malloc
Lecture Wed 10/26	C Mastery
Week 6
Lecture Mon 10/31	Keyboards and the PS/2 Protocol
Lab/assign	Lab 5: Keyboard Surfin'	Assignment 5: Keyboard and Simple Shell
Lecture Wed 11/2	Graphics and the framebuffer
Week 7
Lecture Mon 11/7	Interrupts
Lab/assign	Lab 6: Drawing into the Framebuffer	Assignment 6: Graphics Library and Console
Lecture Wed 11/9	Interrupts, cont'd
Week 8
Lecture Mon 11/14	Sensors
Lab/assign	Lab 7: Raspberry Pi, Interrupted	Assignment 7: System Monitor with Interrupts
Lecture Wed 11/16	Anna & Maria on Performance
Week 9
Lecture Mon 11/21	Matt on Trust and Safety
Lab/assign	Lab 8: Project Team Meeting 1	Final Project ( writeup)
Lecture Wed 11/23	Computer Arithmetic
Week 10
Lecture Mon 11/28	No lecture (public holiday)
Lab/assign	Lab 9: Project Team Meeting 2
Lecture Wed 11/30	No lecture (project lab time, office hours available)
Week 11
Lecture Mon 12/5	Sound, Analog, and Music
Lab/assign
Lecture Wed 12/7
Week 12
	Final Project Demo session Tue 12/13 at 3:30 pm Code submission due Wed 12/14 at 11:59 pm