Brandon Myers - Architecture and Organization

Brandon Myers is Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Iowa. These activities were developed for Architecture and Organization, with support from an ACM Special Projects Award. The activities are here.

Stage	Activity Name
2: Piloted	Bits & Numbers
2: Piloted	Memory Organization of Programs
2: Piloted	Stored Programs
2: Piloted	Procedure Calls
2: Piloted	Combinational Logic
2: Piloted	Adders & Delay
2: Piloted	Adders, Shifters, Multipliers
2: Piloted	Sequential Logic
2: Piloted	Addressable Memory & the Add Instruction
2: Piloted	Engineering Digital Systems

Clif Kussmaul - Architecture and Organization

These activities were developed by Clif Kussmaul for Architecture and Organization using Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective (3E) by Bryant and O’Hallaron. As such, some of them (e.g. Code Reps) focus on the x86-64 architecture. Sample versions are here. For full access, contact Clif Kussmaul.

Stage	Activity Name	Notes
2: Piloted	Intro to C I - Basic Syntax	preprocessor, text I/O
2: Piloted	Intro to C II - Pointers	addresses, pointers, arrays, strings,
2: Piloted	Intro to C III - Structures	malloc, structures
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2: Piloted	Data Reps I - Bits	bits & bytes, number systems, C types & operators, text, instructors
2: Piloted	Data Reps II - Integers	signed & unsigned, C types, casting, operations
2: Piloted	Data Reps III - Floats
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2: Piloted	Code Reps I - Architecture	abstraction, hardware, storage hierarchy, etc
2: Piloted	Code Reps II - Steps & Files	preprocess, compile, assemble, link
2: Piloted	Code Reps III - Addressing	registers, direct, indirect, scaled index, etc
2: Piloted	Code Reps IV - Assembly	format, suffixes, moves, arith & logic, etc
2: Piloted	Code Reps V - Control Flow	condition codes, jumps, conditional momves
2: Piloted	Code Reps VI - Control Structures	not (yet) POGIL - shows control structures in C, assembly, and “assembly equivalent C”
2: Piloted	Code Reps VII - Function Calls	calls, activation records, register mgmt
2: Piloted	Code Reps VIII - Machine Code	short activity

Matt Lang - Architecture and Organization

These activities were developed by Matt Lang for Architecture and Organization. The activities are here. For details, contact Clif Kussmaul.

Stage	Activity Name
2: Piloted	ORG_02_TWOS: Twos Complement Representations
2: Piloted	ORG_03_BIT: Bitwise Operations
2: Piloted	ORG_04_MOVE: Data Movement
2: Piloted	ORG_05_ARITH: Arithmetic Operations
2: Piloted	ORG_06_LOOP: Loops
2: Piloted	ORG_07A_PROC: Procedures
2: Piloted	ORG_07B_PROC: Procedures
2: Piloted	OS_LO: Loop Optimization

Other Activities

Some Architecture and Organization courses might use these CS Principles activities:

Brent Gray - CS Principles

These activities were developed by Brent Gray for CS Principles. Sample versions are here. For full access, contact Clif Kussmaul.

Stage	Activity Name
3: Refined	Digital Abstraction 1 - Representing Information
3: Refined	Digital Abstraction 2 - Representing Text
3: Refined	Digital Abstraction 3 - Representing Images
3: Refined	Digital Abstraction 4 - Representing Instructions
3: Refined	What are Algorithms?

Tammy Pirmann - CS Principles

These activities were developed by Tammy Pirmann for CS Principles. Sample versions are here. For full access, contact Clif Kussmaul.

Stage	Activity Name
3: Refined	Hardware Abstraction 1 - What is a Computer?
3: Refined	Hardware Abstraction 2 - Logic Gates
3: Refined	Number Systems 1 - Decimal and Hex
3: Refined	Number Systems 2 - Binary