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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. |
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.