ECE198KL: Introduction to Computer Engineering II

Announcements

The finals will be held in L440 DCL from 1:30pm - 4:30 pm.
More practice questions for the final are posted. Have a look at them.
Program 11 and 12 are graded. Scores are entered on Compass. Type "svn update" to get the
grade.txt file in prog11 and prog12 directories respectively. Contact Vinay if you have questions.
Here are some sample problems to help you study for the final
Program 8 is graded. Scores are entered on Compass. Type "svn update" to get the
grade.txt file in prog8 directory. Contact Vinay if you have questions.
Practice questions for exam 3 are now available.
A grading scale is now available, and projected grades are in Compass.
Programming studio document for 7 March 2013
Practice questions for exam 2 have been posted.
Vinay's office hours have been changed. Please make a note.
Program 5 deadline extended to 25 February.
Grade information:
- Compass contains numbers (Prog1, Prog2, and Exam1).
- Subversion contains detailed feedback (prog1, prog2, and exam1 subdirectories). If you have a working copy, type "svn update" to get the grade.txt file in prog2 directory. If not, check one out. Contact Vinay if you have questions.
Lecture will be held on 4 March 2013, but NOT on 8 March 2013 (cancelled to let you attend EOH).
Welcome to ECE199KL! I hope you had a great break.
We will use Compass for distributing grade information.
Click here for our class' web board (you may need to click again after logging in to my.ece).
In case you need an LC-3 refresher, I've copied Homework #12 and the associated files to the reference list below.

Course Information

Info packet (all materials below)
Course Overview
Syllabus
Timeline

Office Hours

Prof. Steve Lumetta (lumetta)	Th 1-3	L440 DCL ... or one of the two labs next to it (JL may have reserved) NOTE NEW PLACE!
Vinay Nagar (nagar2)	Sa 5-6pm, Sun 5-6pm, M 9-10 p.m.	L440 DCL

Assignments

Program 1: Printing a Histogram -- due on Monday 21 January

ECE190 student manual

Some instructions on using the Decompose tool. Be aware that the EWS machines will discard your saved Flash files between logins. You can copy (and replace) ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/ if you want to keep them (test before you trust anything valuable to it...)
A flow chart for printing a hex number.
An example of how you write an lc3sim script to simulate typing input, in case you implement the extra credit option of typing in the string. The script assumes that you terminate the string when the user presses <Enter>. The other two example tests contain ASCII newlines, so you won't be able to use those as tests. (Type 'option' in lc3sim to see the full list of options.)

Program 2: LC3-Your-Own-Adventure (part 1 of 2) -- due on Monday 28 January
Program 3: LC3-Your-Own-Adventure (part 2 of 2) -- due on Monday 4 February
Program 4: Calculator -- due on Monday 11 February Android demo package
Program 5: Codebreaker -- due on Monday 25 February Android demo package
Program 6: Image Convolution -- due on Monday 4 March solution.o
Program 7: EOH Exhibits -- due in class Monday 11 March
Program 8: Testing Heap Code for a Discrete Event Simulator -- due on Monday 25 March
Program 9: Depths -- due on Monday 1 April Android demo package
Program 10: Depths II -- due on Monday 8 April Android demo package
Program 11: Depths III -- due on Monday 15 April Android demo package
Program 12: Hello, World! (for WALY) -- due on Tuesday 23 April
Program 13: State Machines and Animation (for WALY) -- due on Wednesday 1 May

Competition Winners

Prizes were kindly provided by Microsoft. From left to right, Zilin took first place with his "Evil Twin Game" in which the player tries to escape the wrath of Lumetta's evil twin while trying to trick the rather handsome villain into hitting the deadly green box. Shiheng earned second for his automated "Hero in a Maze," in which hero of the Depths saga navigates down through a twisted stone passage to collect a crystal. Stephen's "Harlem Shake Simulator," a flamboyant animated epic featuring the Depths hero bouncing on a house and several oscillating crystals, took third. Finally, Potok took fourth with his Mario Twins animation, in which Mario walks, morphs, and walks again!

You could cut the tension in the competition room with, well, a knife would certainly do it. Not sure you necessarily needed that, though. But we had fun!

Lecture Notes and Overviews

Lecture notes on heaps
391 notes: what you should know from this class You will also benefit from just having more experience programming. Note also that the preprocessor material in the notes is not really covered in (any) class, but is something you will still see frequently in C code (such as Linux).
The ECE190 student manual includes my lecture notes on I/O in C (beyond the book's coverage) as well as early notes on C++ (but read the lecture notes developed for our class below, too).
Lecture notes on hierarchies of structures
Lecture notes on function specialization (for hierarchies of structures)
Lecture notes on modules and classes
David Parnas' 1972 paper on information hiding (the link is accessible from UIUC machines/using VPN)
Lecture notes on class definitions
Lecture notes on access control, constructors, destructors, and dynamic allocation
Lecture notes on destructors, dynamic allocation, and overloading
Comparison between a function and a call written using pointer arguments and an equivalent function written using reference arguments (and associated code).

Reference Sheets

Homework #12 from last semester -- hw12-probA.bin, hw12-probB.asm
Command Line Reference Sheet
Vim Reference Sheet
SVN Reference Book
Instructions for remote EWS login
Patt and Patel textbook appendices: Appendix A describes the LC-3 Instruction Set Architecture, and Appendix C describes a finite state machine and hardware architecture that implements the LC-3 ISA.
Exam handout
LC-3 with RTL

Example C Programs

Examples developed in ECE190. We will probably cover some or all of them in our class.

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