CSCI 2400: Computer Systems
Fall 2013
Department of Computer Science,
University of Colorado at Boulder
See the Moodle class Web page at http://moodle.cs.colorado.edu
Schedule
& Location: Tues, Thurs 12:30-1:45 pm, ECCR 265
Course number: CSCI 2400. See also the registrar's Web site.
Prerequisites: CSCI 2270.
Instructor: Professor Rick Han,
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~rhan.
Office: ECCR 1B05F
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-3 pm and Wednesdays 2-3 pm
either in my office or ECCR 1B09 (next door to my office).
Additional appointments as needed.
Email: rhan@cs.colorado.edu
Phone: 303-492-0914
Textbook:
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, Randal Bryant and David O'Hallaron, 2nd edition, Addison Wesley, 2010. (You may purchase the Kindle version)
Other useful references:
TAs:
Frank DiNatale, John Klingner, and Oliver Michel
TA Office/Hours: Weekly recitation sections, and
more as needed. See moodle for announcements.
TA Email: francesco.dinatale@colorado.edu,
john.klingner@colorado.edu, oliver.michel@colorado.edu
class Web
site:
See the Moodle class Web page at
http://moodle.cs.colorado.edu. Assignments, lecture slides, and
announcements can be found there. The moodle has a
variety of useful features, including a forum for posting
questions. Each student should establish an account
on the moodle and then subscribe to our class on the moodle
using the special enrollment key given out in class.
CSEL Accounts:
The Computer Science
department maintains the Computer Science Educational Labs
(CSEL) in the first floor of the ECCS Wing of the
Engineering Center. The CSEL consists of a cluster
of primarily Linux machines. It is a convenient
facility for doing your programming assignments. You
may sign up for an account in the CSEL by going to the
general CSEL Web site http://csel.cs.colorado.edu
and following the instructions there to sign up for an
account. This will also give you Buff One card key
access to the CSEL.
Class VM:
Instructions for
downloading and installing the class VM will be posted
on the moodle and gone over in the first recitation.
Grading
The lab assignments constitute 50%
of your grade.
The two midterms are worth 15% each, and the final is
worth 15% of your grade (45% total for exams).
The recitation questions make up the remaining 5%.
Grading for Lab Assignments:
Your primary assignments will be your "Lab Assignments,"
given every 2-3 weeks, each of which will be followed by a
grading meeting to review your solution with the TA. The
grade meetings are scheduled on the Moodle site before the
assignment is due, and will begin immediately after the
due-date of each Lab. Even if your Assignment is
submitted complete, you must attend your grading meeting
to be given a grade. Any missed meetings (without
notifying your TA ahead of time with a suitable reason)
may result in a zero grade for that assignment. The
TA is under no obligation to reschedule your appointment
if you miss your meeting, so write down your meeting
times, and don't forget them!
The grades for each lab will be based 40% upon the Task
Success (i.e. "does it work") and 60% upon your
explanation and answering questions about the lab.
Historically speaking, students that have completed the
assignment themselves usually have little problem passing
the Q&A portion of the grade.
Students may work in teams of up
to two for the labs only, but each student will still be
responsible for scheduling their own grading meeting with
the TA for each lab. You may help others only to the
extent of answering typical questions that arise during
compiling, debugging, and executing your lab
assignments. All
non-lab assignments must be your own original work, unless
otherwise noted. All assignments are due by the
deadline stated. Extensions will not be granted
except at the instructor's discretion in documented cases of
extreme hardship, unless otherwise noted.
All labs
must be written in C and compiled for execution on the class
VM, unless otherwise noted.
More information on the grading
policy may be posted as needed on the moodle as the
semester progresses.
Discrimination
and Sexual Harassment Policy