CS 210: Computer Systems

I just released the grades on the official BU link system.

Have a great holiday.  I enjoyed meeting and working with all of you this past term.

Jonathan.

The teaching staff has posted a new lecture notes resource.

Title: exceptions.pdf
http://www.piazza.com/class_profile/get_resource/hxdme0g2yn743x/i3px7x4js74lm


You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/bu/fall2014/cs210/resources

The teaching staff has posted a new lecture notes resource.

Title: IO.pdf


You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/bu/fall2014/cs210/resources

If you were not able to submit your buflab solutions retry now.  

The teaching staff has posted a new exams resource.

Title: practice.pdf


You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/bu/fall2014/cs210/resources

Your graded ps3 hand-ins are available for pickup in the CS210 dropbox. Grades will be posted to blackboard in the next day or two. 

The teaching staff has posted a new homework_solutions resource.

Title: ps3sol.pdf

You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/bu/fall2014/cs210/resources

Ok everyone, this is important. Below I've outlined the instructions for submitting PA3. Being that this is the end of the semester it is unlikely that you'll have an opportunity to resubmit if you upload something broken or incomplete. So please follow along carefully. 

1) Only submit the user tarball. Each time you type 'make' in the cachelab-handout directory the Makefile creates a tarball, called userid-handin.tar, that contains your current csim.c and trans.c files.

Use gsubmit to hand in only your user-handin.tar. DO NOT submit all the files in the cachelab-handout directory. 

gsubmit cs210 user-handin.tar

IMPORTANT: Do not create the handin tarball on a Windows or Mac machine, and do not handin files in any other archive format, such as .zip, .gzip, or .tgz files.

2) Code that does not compile will get zero credit for that part.  We have provided you with a driver program, called ./driver.py, that performs a complete evaluation of your simulator and transpose code. This is the same program your instructor uses to evaluate your handins. The driver uses test-csim to evaluate your simulator, and it uses test-trans to evaluate your submitted transpose function on the three matrix sizes. Then it prints a summary of your results and the points you have earned.

To run the driver cleanly, type:

make clean
make
./driver.py

3) Group members submit individually. Despite being able to work in groups, we require that you and your teammate both submit your user tarball individually. This may require you to move code from one persons account to another before running "make" and "./driver". 

Its OK if you've already submitted something, but please also follow the instructions outlined above. You do not need to hand in a physical copy of anything. 

Thanks and good luck! 

I will be hosting a Final Exam review on Monday 12/15 from 10am-12pm in the Discussion lab. During the review I will go over problems from the sample exam* and answer any remaining questions that you may have. This, of course, is completely optional. 

*a sample exam will be posted later this week. 

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Jim