Computer System Organization I, Fall 1996

# COURSE INFORMATION

COURSE HOME PAGE | URL http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall97/V22.0201.002/index.html You can also find this from links in the CS department home page.
COURSE NUMBER: | V22.0201.002
COURSE NAME: | Computer System Organization, I
OFFERING: | Fall 1997
TIME: | Monday and Wednesday 9:55--10:10
PLACE: | Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
TEACHER: | Professor Chee Yap, Office: WWH 416, Phone: (212)998-3115, Email: yap@cs.nyu.edu
OFFICE HOURS: | Tuesday 10--11
PREREQUISITE: | A high level language (e.g. Pascal, V22.0101) Data structures (V22.0101)
TEXTBOOK: | Assembly Language Programming and Organization of of the IBM PC , by Ytha Yu and Charles Marut
EXAMINATIONS: | midterm and final (FINAL EXAM: Tue Dec 16, 2:00-3:50pm, room TBA)
HOMEWORK: | 3-4 small homeworks, no late homework. One large project (video game).
PROGRAMMING: | On IBM PC family and clones. Assembler is Borland's Turbo Assembler (TASM) with the Turbo Debugger (TD). They are available from the ACF networks for lab use. Your own copy from the NYU bookstore costs $75.
GRADE: | 20% homework, 15% midterm, 35% project, 30% final.

# DESCRIPTION

This is the first of a 2-semester sequence introducing fundamentals of a computer organization. The first semester concentrates on the Assembly language for the Intel x86 series of chips which is the heart of the IBM PC and clones. The second semester introduces the C programming language. We recommend that you have at least two 3.5" high density diskettes, making certain that you keep two copies of your work at all times. It is your responsibility to keep an extra copy of your homework.