UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2002, Section 0101

News Archive

• [Mon Dec 23 20:34 2002]  Final grades were sent by email to students who took the final exam.

• [Thu Dec 19 22:35 2002]  Grades for DigSim3 were sent out by email.

• [Fri Dec 06 15:12 2002]  Lecture topics page updated to Tuesday 12/03.

• [Thu Dec 05 05:50 2002]  UMBC is closed until 5pm today (see Snow Emergency Announcement). If you have questions about DigSim3, ask them by email.

• [Wed Dec 04 15:24 2002]  In DigSim3, it is possible to use a 4 state machine. If you use a 4 state machine, you should use 3-variable Karnaugh maps (available here) instead of the 4-variable Karnaugh maps given in the handout. Similarly, you would use an 8-row truth table instead of a 16-row truth table (available here).

• [Mon Dec 02 13:35 2002]  DigSim3 posted (available only in PDF for now).

• [Thu Nov 21 21:05 2002]  Lecture topics page updated to Thursday 11/21.

• [Wed Nov 20 10:40 2002]  Homework 5 posted (available only in PDF).

• [Tue Nov 19 18:52 2002]  Karnaugh maps (4x4) are available in PDF.

• [Fri Nov 15 21:05 2002]  Lecture topics page updated to Thursday 11/14.

• [Tue Nov 12 23:08 2002]  DigSim Exercise #2 posted. (Also available in PDF.)

• [Tue Nov 12 21:20 2002]  Grades for DigSim 1 were sent out by email.

• [Tue Nov 12 21:05 2002]  Lecture topics page updated to Tuesday 11/12.

• [Thu Nov 07 09:36 2002]  For archival reasons, Homework 3 is now available online.

• [Thu Nov 07 09:36 2002]  Homework 4 posted.

• [Wed Nov 06 12:07 2002]  Digsim info page was expanded to include more details on executing the Java application in Linux and in Windows 2000.

• [Thu Oct 31 23:05 2002]  Midterm report cards were sent by email.

• [Thu Oct 31 12:00 2002]  Homework 3 will not be available online. Copies may be obtained from the instructor's office.

• [Thu Oct 31 11:45 2002]  Grades for Project 4 were sent out by email.

• [Thu Oct 24 22:00 2002]  Grades for Project 3 were sent out by email.

• [Tue Oct 22 10:53 2002]  DigSim Info and DigSim Exercixes pages posted. DigSim Exercise 1 is available (also in PDF).

• [Mon Oct 21 15:45 2002]  Office hour changes:
  
  
  • Tuesday October 22: unless there's much objection, Prof Chang's office hours will be cancelled so he can attend Allan Fisher's talk on women CS majors.
  • Thursday October 24: Prof Chang's office hour will be shifted to 3:45 to 4:45pm.
  • Tuesday October 29: Prof Chang will be attending a workshop in Pittsburgh. So, Tuesday's office hour will be cancelled.
  
  If you had planned to see Prof Chang during these times, send him email to make other arrangements.

• [Fri Oct 18 13:25 2002]  UMBC closed this morning due to general power outage. Lecture topics page updated to Thursday 10/17.

• [Mon Oct 14 08:20 2002]  CSEE web server backup. Temporary site will be taken down.

• [Sun Oct 13 21:49 2002]  The CSEE web server has been down most of the day. It's not clear when service will resume. A temporary site was set up on my GL account.

• [Sun Oct 13 21:48 2002]  Lecture topics page updated to Thursday 10/10.

• [Thu Oct 10 21:48 2002]  Project 4 available online and in PDF.

• [Tue Oct 08 00:13 2002]  Grades for Project 2 were sent out by email.

• [Fri Sep 27 10:56 2002]  Lecture topics page updated to Thursday 10/03.

• [Mon Sep 30 23:23 2002]  Project 3 posted. Also available in PDF.

• [Mon Sep 30 15:45 2002]  Grades for Project 1 were resent due to bogus "Subject: " line in the email.

• [Sun Sep 29 17:25 2002]  Grades for Project 1 were sent out by email.

• [Fri Sep 27 10:56 2002]  Lecture topics page updated to Thursday 09/26.

• [Thu Sep 26 12:45 2002]  The due date for Project 2 has been extended to Friday Sept 27.

• [Tue Sep 24 11:40 2002]  The total score for HW1 was 65 and for HW2, 50.

• [Sat Sep 21 09:21 2002]  Lecture topics page updated to Thursday 09/19 and now shows the slippage in the lecture schedule.

• [Thu Sep 19 00:21 2002]  Project 2 posted. Also available in PDF.

• [Wed Sep 18 08:44 2002]  Source code links in Lecture topics pages fixed.

• [Mon Sep 16 15:42 2002]  Lecture topics page updated to 09/12/02.

• [Thu Sep 12 11:57 2002]  Project 1 now available in HTML

• [Thu Sep 12 11:25 2002]  Project 1 available in PDF.

• [Tue Sep 10 09:20 2002]  Homework 2 posted.

• [Fri Sep 06 14:14 2002]  Lecture topics page updated.

• [Tue Sep 03 11:50 2002]  The TA for the class Leo Li will hold his office hours on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11am to 12noon in ECS Room 334.

• [Tue Sep 03 11:45 2002]  Homework 1 posted.

• [Mon Aug 12 11:00 2002]  Advising Note: This course is a replacement for CMSC 211 Assembly Language Programming and CMSC 311 Computer Organization. Students who have taken either CMSC 211 or CMSC 311 previously should not take this class. Furthermore, computer science majors who take this class must also take CMSC 411 Computer Architecture to satisfy the requirements of a BS degree in computer science. CMSC 313 by itself will not be sufficient for graduation.

• [Mon Aug 12 10:00 2002]  Web page up.