Introduction

This course is about computer organization and assembly languages, specifically for Intel architectures. You might wonder why learning assembly languages. After all, who will write assembly programs these days. Actually, people still write assembly for faster codes (compiler is not as smart as men yet), smaller codes (for devices with limited amount of memory such as mobile devices) and specific architectures (in which there are not even compilers, for example, early GPUs). With these in mind, other than the fundamentals about assembly programming, this course emphasizes on code optimization techniques on writing fast and small codes for specific architectures, here, Intel architectures.

Recent updates

January 20, 2005	The final grade is announced at this page.
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January 05, 2005	Lecture #15 is posted.
January 05, 2005	grade for assignment #4 is posted.
December 29, 2005	Lecture #14 is posted.
December 22, 2005	grade for assignment #3 is posted.
December 22, 2005	Lecture #13 is posted.
December 15, 2005	grade for assignment #2 is posted.
December 15, 2005	Final project is posted.
December 15, 2005	Lecture #12 is posted.
December 8, 2005	Lecture #11 is posted.
December 1, 2005	Assignment #4 is posted.
December 1, 2005	Lecture #10 is posted.
November 24, 2005	Lecture #9 is posted.
November 17, 2005	Assignment #3 is posted.
November 17, 2005	Lecture #8 is posted.
November 03, 2005	Important!! Midterm exam will be held in Room103 from 10am to 12am on 11/10.
November 03, 2005	Assignment #2 is posted.
November 03, 2005	Lecture #7 is posted.
October 27, 2005	Lecture #6 is posted.
October 24, 2005	Lecture #5 is posted.
October 13, 2005	Assignment #1 is posted.
October 13, 2005	Lecture #4 is posted.
October 6, 2005	Lecture #3 is posted.
September 29, 2005	Lecture #2 is posted.
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September 18, 2005	This webpage is updated.
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