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Lecturers: Fred Brown and Brad Alexander
Tutor: Daniel Lawson

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the layered and modular nature of computer systems.
2. Design the core components of a computer from basic components.
3. Understand and Apply knowledge of how computers represent programs and data.
4. Explain how a computer executes a program.
5. Write assembler and machine code.
6. Understand the translation process from higher level representations into machine language
7. Explain how Input/output operations  are implemented, and describe some basic I/O devices

The textbook for the course is: The Elements of Computing Systems, by Noam Nisan and Shimon Shocken, MIT Press, 2008, ISBN13-978-0-262-64068-8.

It is highly recommended that you buy this book. It is available in soft cover form and available electronically as an e-book.

The first six chapters of are on the Nand2Tetris website used by the course but we will be using materials in chapters beyond this.

The course website can be found here:

        

We will use this to announce all changes to the course, assignments, and workshops. You are therefore strongly advised to read all mail that comes from this source — do not ignore it!

The course will be taught using a combination of lectures and workshops. There will also be four practical programming exercises. You are expected to read the book before and after each lecture, and to actively participate in class activities.

To get the most out of the workshop sessions you should attempt the questions before the session --- there is often not time to do all questions in these sessions.

You are expected to attend all scheduled classes.

In addition to the scheduled contact hours, you are expected to spend an additional 1-2 hours per week as lecture preparation.
You will need to allocate 2-5 hours per week to work on the assignments and workshop preparation.

There is an approximate schedule of the topics that will be covered on the course website (see forums.cs.adelaide.edu.au to locate the online content of the course).

The exact timing will depend on the times of public holidays and quizzes.

The assessment will comprise four parts:

• Exam (50%) (CBOK areas* abstraction, design, hardware and software, data and information, and programming)
• Four Assignments (30%) (CBOK areas* abstraction, design, hardware and software, data and information, and programming)
• Ten Quizzes (10%) (CBOK areas* design, hardware and software)
• Up to 12 Workshops - attendence and participation (10%) (CBOK areas* abstraction, design, hardware and software, data and information, and programming)

*For the CBOK See: 

Hurdle Requirement: If your overall mark for the course is greater than 44 F but, your mark for the final written exam is less than 40%, your overall mark for the course will be reduced to 44 F.

The written exam is held in the end-of-semester exam period. The exam will test your understanding of the assignment, workshop and lecture material.

All practical assignments require you to write programs, which will be partly marked by the Web Submission System.

You are strongly encouraged to begin the exercises early, to allow time for seeking help when needed. In all practical assignments you will be required to use a logbook that you maintain during your development of your solution to the assignment. This logbook is a vital part of your assessment - a lack of a log-book with a narrative of your development process may result in a mark of zero for the assignment. A link to the logbook is available in the Web Submission System on the "View Feedback" tab of each practical assignment.

Assignment details:

Assignment	Milestone Due	Milestone Due	Description	Weighting
Assignment 1	Friday Week 2	Friday Week 3	Hardware Simulation	7.5%
Assignment 2	Friday Week 5	Friday Week 6	Hardware Simulation	7.5%
Assignment 3	Friday Week 8	Friday Week 9	Programming	7.5%
Assignment 4	Friday Week 11	Friday Week 12	Programming	7.5%

You will receive an attendance mark for each workshop that you attend and actively participate in. The workshop attendance marks are equally weighted so that if you attend and actively participate in all of them the marks will add up to 10%.

There will be 10 online quizzes available on the course website. The dates these are available will be shown on the course website.

All practical assignments must be submitted using the School of Computer Science online Submission System.  Details are included in each assignment description on the course website.

If you hand in your work late, your mark may be capped, based on how many days late it is, as follows:
up to 1 day late — mark capped at 75%
up to 2 days late — mark capped at 50%
up to 3 days late — mark capped at 25%
More than 3 days late — no marks available.

We expect to be able to return the final marks of each assignment within three weeks of the deadline.

Due to the nature of the on-line quizzes, no late submissions are permitted.