Brandon Myers - Architecture and Organization

Brandon Myers (brandon-d-myers@uiowa.edu) 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.
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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.
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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, instructions
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.
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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.
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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.
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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