CS 261

Resources

This page contains links to third-party resources that you may find helpful. If you have suggestions for other resources that your fellow students may find helpful, please let me know.

Class-Specific

• Project guide
• Project coding standards
• C function quick reference
• Y86-64 ISA reference
• CS:APP textbook website
• Project files and examples are on stu at /cs/students/cs261/f16/src
• Labs and solutions are posted in the "Files" section on Canvas.
• Y86 simulators: xsznix.github.io | y86.js.org
• Mindmap of course topics: (PDF | MM)

Videos

• CS 261 Video Lectures - Dr. Kirkpatrick's lectures from Spring 2016
• C Programming Language - Computerphile w/ Brian Kernighan
• 15 and Hexadecimal - Computerphile on binary representations
• How Gangnam Style Broke Youtube - Computerphile on integer overflow
• Binary Addition and Overflow - Computerphile
• Two's Complement - Computerphile
• Floating Point Numbers - Computerphile
• AND OR NOT Logic Gates - Computerphile
• XOR and Half Adder - Computerphile
• 10,000 Domino Computer - Matt Parker (standupmaths)
• Memory - Computerphile
• Addressing Memory: Pt.1 and Pt.2 - Computerphile
• Caching - Computerphile
• Nanoseconds - Grace Hopper
• 8-bit breadboard computer - Simple CPU built from scratch (playlist)

Fall 2015 CS 240 Tutorials (C Language)

• Using C
• Basic C
• Structs
• Unit Testing
• Pointers
• Strings & IO
• Debugging

Basic Command-Line & Linux

• Development basics (from Dr. Kirkpatrick)
• The Linux Command Line (online book)
• Linux Tutorial
• JMU Unix Users Group mirror - VirtualBox and Linux virtual machine images

Text Editors

• Vimtutor - builtin Vim tutorial
• Vim cheatsheet (also available outside my office door)
• Guided Tour of Emacs

The C Language

• The C Programming Language, 2nd Ed. (online book -- THIS IS THE CLASSIC "K&R BOOK")
• Practical C Programming (online book)
• Understanding and Using C Pointers (online book)
• GNU C Reference Manual
• C Standard Library Reference
• File I/O: Tutorial | Reference
• getopt() reference

x86-64 Reference

• Intel Manual (all volumes in one PDF)
• AMD64 Vol 1: Application Programming
• AMD64 Vol 2: System Programming
• AMD64 Vol 3: General Instruction Reference
• AMD64 Vol 4: SSE and AVX Instruction Reference
• AMD64 Vol 5: MMX and x87 Instruction Reference

Debugging

• GDB tutorial
• GDB quick reference
• Valgrind tutorial
• Floating-point debugging article

Version Control

• Git tutorial
• Mercurial tutorial

Logic Gates and Circuits

• Logisim - Graphical tool for modeling/simulating circuits
• Circuit simulator - Web tool for modeling/simulating circuits