Course Schedule

(This schedule will be adjusted as the semester progresses. Future topics are a best-estimate on when we expect to cover them.)

Date	Event
Week 1
Jan. 17	Course Introduction and Binary Representation Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: Homework 1 (Due Monday, Jan. 23 by 11:59pm) Pre-MP (Due Tuesday, Jan. 24 by 11:59pm)
Jan. 19	Character Encodings (ASCII, UTF-8), Binary Math, and Two's Complement Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: Homework 2 (Due Monday, Jan. 23 by 11:59pm)
Week 2
Jan. 24	C Programming and Logic Gates Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Additional Readings: The C Programming Language - An Introduction Strings in C Basic Memory Management in C Bitwise Operations Assignments Released: Homework 3 (Due Monday, Jan. 30 by 11:59pm) MP1 (Due Tuesday, Jan. 31 by 11:59pm)
Jan. 26	Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: Homework 4 (Due Monday, Jan. 30 by 11:59pm)
Week 3
Jan. 31	Endianness, Memory Hierarchy, and Virtual Memory Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: MP2 (Due Tuesday, Feb. 7 by 11:59pm)
Feb. 2	Memory Allocation and malloc Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: Homework 5 (Due Monday, Feb. 6 by 11:59pm)
Week 4
Feb. 7	Page Eviction, Threads, and pthreads Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: Homework 6 (Due Monday, Feb. 13 by 11:59pm) MP3 (Week 1 due on Tuesday, Feb. 14 by 11:59pm) MP3 (Week 2 due on Tuesday, Feb. 21 by 11:59pm)
Feb. 9	Thread Creation, Join, and the Five State Model Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: Homework 7 (Due Monday, Feb. 13 by 11:59pm)
Week 5
Feb. 14	Synchronization and Dining Philosophers Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording
Feb. 16	Deadlock and The Sleeping Barber Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: Homework 8 (Due Monday, Feb. 20 by 11:59pm)
Week 6
Feb. 21	IPC and Networking Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: MP4 (Due Tuesday, Feb. 28 by 11:59pm)
Feb. 23	Networking: OSI Model and HTTP Lecture Handout ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: Homework 9 - Midterm Review (Due before Midterm Exam)
Week 7
You will sign up to take your Midterm 1 exam in the CBTF this week.
Feb. 28	Web Services Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: MP5 (Due Tuesday, March 7 by 11:59pm)
Mar. 2	No Lecture — Mideterm Exam I
Week 8
Mar. 7	API Programming with Flask Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: MP6 (Due Tuesday, March 21 by 11:59pm)
Mar. 9	IaaS and Public/Private Clouds Lecture Handout ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: Homework 10 - HTTP and XaaS (Due Tuesday, March 21 by 11:59pm)
Week 9
Mar. 14	No Lecture — Spring Break
Mar. 16	No Lecture — Spring Break
Week 10
Mar. 21	Containers, CaaS and Docker Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: MP7 (Due Tuesday, March 28 by 11:59pm)
Mar. 23	Data Storage and Caching / Local File Storage Lecture Handout ▶️ Lecture Recording
Week 11
Mar. 28	Final Project Discussion + Cloud Object Storage (AWS S3, etc) Lecture Handout Lecture Code ▶️ Lecture Recording Assignments Released: MP8 (Due Tuesday, Apr. 4 by 11:59pm) Homework 11 (Due Monday, Apr. 3 by 11:59pm)
Mar. 30	Data Stores and Cloud Architectures Lecture Handout Lecture Code Assignments Released: Homework 13 (Due Monday, Oct. 31 by 11:59pm)
Week 12
Apr. 4	MapReduce and SaaS Introduction
Apr. 6	Caching in HTTP (Age and ETag)
Week 13
Apr. 11	No Lecture — TBA
Apr. 13	MP9 Course-Wide Maze
Week 14
Apr. 18	Tokens and SAML2 Authentication (SSO Login)
Apr. 20	Domain Name System (DNS)
Week 15
You will sign up to take your Midterm 2 exam in the CBTF this week.
Apr. 25	Finish Up DNS, Final Project Updates, MP9 Maze (v2)
Apr. 27	No Lecture — Midterm Exam II
Week 16
May. 2	CDN: Content Delivery Networks
The finale of the final project will take place during the final exam period for CS 340, which is 1:30pm-4:30pm on Monday, May 8
May. 8	Final Project Presentations (1:30pm)