ECS 50, Winter 2007

Information at a glance:

• Times/locations: lecture, TuTh 4:40-6:00, 1060 Bainer; discussion, F 4:10-5, 147 Olson

• Professor: Norm Matloff, 3053 EU II, 2-1953, matloff@cs.ucdavis.edu

• TA: Daniel Wu, danwu@ucdavis.edu

• Professor's office hours: Mondays, 3:30-4:30 and Thursdays, 1:30-2:30

• TA's office hours: Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30 and Wednesdays 1:00-2:30, both in the Kemper dungeon (53 Kemper Hall)

• Text: Printed lecture notes, available at the campus bookstore, or as the PDF files on my lecture notes Web page.

The class syllabus.

Newsgroup

Homework assignments

Old exams (e.g. W04I002.pdf is Winter 2004 Section 002, Exam I)

Other resources for this class:

• UNIX tutorial
• full Intel CPU manual (huge)
• Linux installation guide

• Linux assembly language Web page

• full as manual

• NASM assembler home page

• my tutorials on debugging, including gdb and ddd

• the ALD debugger

• the Intel2gas syntax converter

• C++ resource page

Other software Web sites by Norm Matloff:

• Professor Matloff's Unix/C tutorials.

• His Java tutorial.

• Dr. Matloff's beginner's guide to installing and using Linux.

• His "Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text editor," and his introductions to the elvis and vim extensions to vi. The latter are much better than ordinary vi (and far, far better than pico). X11 mouse capability; subwindows (even on nongraphics terminals); infinite undo; paragraph formatting and so on.

• Norman Matloff's guide to fast debugging! See also his text-editing tips designed especially for programmers.

• Professor Matloff's LaTeX tutorial and resource page, and his tutorial on LyX, a GUI interface to LaTeX.

• Dr. Matloff's introduction to the mutt e-mail utility. Don't use pine! It was designed for people who are afraid of computers, not for computer experts.

• Norm Matloff's Chinese-language software page.