Course Computer Systems for AI-programmers

"Computersystemen voor AI-programmeurs"

This is the information of year 2008-2009

The site of the previous years 2005-2008 can be found here.

Description

The official description of course baiCSAI03 can be found (in Dutch) here.

Literature

The course is based on the book Computer Systems: A programmer's perspective by R.E. Bryant and D.R. O'Hallaron. The book has also a student site with additional material.

Schedule

The course is scheduled in week 6-13 at the following days. The course will start on Thursday February 5th :
 

day	time	location	remarks
Wednesday	12:00 - 15:00	Studio Classroom P1.27	Assistance on weekly assignment
Thursday	9:30 - 12:30	Studio Classroom P1.23	Combined college and workgroup

The course is given in 6 weeks, and will concentrate on certain parts of the book (those of interest for AI-students) (ICS curriculum):

Chapter	Topic	Week	remark
1	Tour of systems	6
2	Data representation	6
3	Machine language	7	Data representation in C
4	Processor Architecture	8	Program Control in C
5	Code Optimization	9
6	Memory hierarchy	10
7	Linking	11
8	Exceptional control flow	11
9	Performance measurement
10	Virtual memory	11
11	System-level I/O
12	Network programming
13	Concurrent programming

From the book, we have covered the following sections:

• H1,
  
• H3.1-3.4, 3.6-3.12,
  
• H4.4, 4.5.5-4.5.7, 4.5.10,
  
• H5.1-5.8, 5.10, 5.11, 5.14-5.16
  
• H6.1.3, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4.6, 6.4.7, 6.6, 6.7, pp.496 & pp.506 "aside"s,
  
• H7.1-7.10, 7.13-14
  
• H8 until 8.5,
  
• 10.1-10.5, 10.7.2, 10.8 (until 10.8.4)
  

• July 2009

Previous exams:

• March 2009
• December 2007
• October 2006
• October 2005
• October 2004

Evaluation

The course was in 2008 overall evaluated by the participants with a 7.53:

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Inheritance

In the old days, when Bachelors were not schooled at Dutch Universities, a different course was given, by a different teacher, and with another focus. Still, much can be learned from the course 'Operating- and Distributed systems'.