CS 4400: Computer Systems — Fall 2009
- Class Meetings: Mondays and Wednesdays 1:25-2:45p in 101 WEB
- Instructor: D. Erin Parker
Office: 3190J MEB
Email: parker AT cs.utah.edu
- Teaching Assistants: Torrey Atcitty (Consultant, atcitty AT eng.utah.edu),
Joe Mayo (Consultant, mayo AT eng.utah.edu),
and Yu Su (Grader, ysu AT eng.utah.edu)
- Course Text:
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
by Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron, 1st ed (ISBN: 0-13-034074-X)
See the textbook webpage
for program files and errata.
- Course Description:
The objective of this course is to help students bridge the gap between high-level
programming and actual computer systems: processors, the memory hierarchy, operating systems,
compilers, linkers, assemblers, networks, and more.
Our basic goal is to understand how a computer works, so that as programmers we can make it
work efficiently. Thus, this course is an introduction to computer systems from a programmer's
point of view.
The prerequisites for this course are CS 3500 (Software Practice I) and CS 3810
(Computer Organization).
- Administrative Details and Syllabus