EE 306 Announcements

Fall 2004



12/13/04

Programming Assignment 5 test cases

The test cases used for grading program 5 have been posted in the Lab Assignments section of the website.

12/11/04

Final Grades

The final grades for the class should be posted on Sunday, December 12.

12/10/04

Linda's Office Hours Today

Linda's office hours for today (5:30-6:30pm) have been cancelled. If you have last minute questions before the exam, Siddharth has office hours in ENS 507 from 5 to 7pm.

12/8/04

Old Final Exam

An old final exam has been posted under the Exams section of the website.

12/8/04

Problem Set 6 Solutions

The solutions to Problem Set 6 have now been posted on the Problem Sets section of the website.

12/5/04

Linda's Office Hours

Linda will not be holding her regular office hours during the final exam week. Instead, she will hold office hours on Wednesday 12:30-2:00 PM and Friday 5:30-6:30 PM in ENS 136.

12/2/04

Vishal's Office Hours

Vishal will not be holding his regular office hours during the final exam week. Instead, he will hold office hours on Tuesday 2:00-3:30, Thursday 2:00-3:30, Friday 9:30-11:00 AM in ENS 507.

12/2/04

Review Sessions

Two reviewed sessions for the final are currently scheduled:
Linda and Veynu 6:30 to 8:30 Monday, December 6.
Basit and Tommy 6:30 to 8:30 Tuesday, December 7.
Check back later for the room assignments.

12/2/04

Final Exam Buzzwords

The buzzwords for the final exam have been posted under the Exams section.

12/2/04

Grades posted on Blackboard

The grades for your problem sets have been posted on Blackboard. Click here for info on how to access Blackboard. It is a good idea to check your grades to ensure that no clerical errors have been made.

11/30/04

Exam 2 Solutions

The solutions for Exam 2 are now posted in the Exam section.

11/28/04

PA4 Results File and Regrades

An explanation of the results file for PA4 grades has been posted in the lab assignments section of the website. PA4 regrades are due Friday, Dec. 3.

11/23/04

Program 5 Demo

There will be a demo of program 5 today (11/23) in ENS 302 starting at 8pm. This will also be a chance for you to ask any questions you may have about the assignment.

11/23/04

Basit's Tuesday Office Hours

Basit's office hours for today (11/23) have been cancelled.

11/23/04

Problem Set 6

Problem Set 6 has been posted. There is no due date as it is optional. This means that we will not grade it, it is there only to aide your understanding of the material.

11/23/04

Programming Assignment 5

Programming Assignment 5 has been posted. It is due Friday, December 3 at 5:00pm.

11/20/04

Extra Office Hours

Jeremy will be holding office hours on Sunday (11/21) at 2:00 PM in ENS 507.

11/17/04

Programming Assignment2 Test Cases

The test cases used for grading PA2 have been posted in the Lab Assignments section.

11/15/04

Jeremy's Tuesday Office Hours

Jeremy's Tuesday office hours have been permanently moved from 3:30-5:00 to 5:00-6:30 in ENS 507.

11/14/04

Danny's Office Hours

Danny's office hours today (Sunday November 14 5-6:30) ONLY have been canceled.

11/12/04

Programming Assignment 4

Programming Assignment 4 has been posted. It is due Sunday, November 21 at 11:59pm.

11/9/04

Additional Office Hours

Jeremy will be holding additional office hours Wednesday (Nov. 10) from 1:30 to 3:00 in ENS 507.

11/9/04

Problem Set 5 Solutions

The solutions for Problem Set 5 have been posted on the Problem Set page.

11/9/04

Basit's Wednesday Office Hours

Basit's office hours for this Thursday only have been cancelled. He will be holding office hours instead on Friday 4:00-5:15 in ENS 507.

11/9/04

Programming Assignment 1 Regrades

Regrades for programming assignment 1 must be submitted to your TA by Tuesday, November 16 (11:59 PM). Click here to see the regrade policy. A regrade is not intended to be a second chance for someone whose program was a complete mess or was submitted in an unfinished form. It is intended to be a second chance for the students who got a 0 as a result of a stupid mistake, such as forgetting to store the result or storing the result to the wrong memory location.

11/7/04

Exam Rooms

The room in which students will be taking Exam 2 will be determined by their last names. For students whose last names begin with the letters A-M, the exam will be given in the regular lecture room (UTC 2.112A). For students whose last names begin with N-Z, the exam will be given in WCH 1.120.

11/7/04

Exam Review

Prof. Patt will be conducting a review for Exam 2 on Monday, November 8, at 8:00 PM in WCH 1.120.

11/6/04

Extra Office Hours

Aamir will be holding additional office hours on Sunday (Nov. 7) in ENS 136 from 3:00-5:00.

11/5/04

Problem Set 5

The following hint has been added to problem 4:
Hint: If you do not know what RET does, try the Index at the back of the book. In fact, you might even take care to look at footnotes on the referenced pages, in addition to the body of the page.

11/4/04

Problem Set 5

Problem number 4 has been changed from problem 9.7 in the book to 9.8 in the book. The problem set has been updated.

11/3/04

Jeremy's Thursday Office Hours

Jeremy's Thursday office hours have been moved to 5:00-6:30 for this Thursday only.

11/1/04

Problem Set 5

Problem Set 5 has been posted and will be due on November 8, before class.

10/31/04

Programming Assignment 3 Update

Students are encouraged to use TRAP x22 instructions to complete the third programming assignment.

10/27/04

Programming Assignment 3

Programming Assignment 3 has been posted. It is due Tuesday, November 2 at 11:59pm.

10/26/04

Basit's Wednesday Office Hours

Basit's office hours for Tuesday (10/26) have been moved from 12:30-2:00 to 3:30-5:00.

10/25/04

Basit's Wednesday Office Hours

Basit's office hours for Wednesday (10/27) have been cancelled, for this week only.

10/24/04

Additional Sunday Office Hours

Jeremy will hold additional office hours today at 9:00 PM.

10/24/04

Change in Danny's office hours for today only

Danny's Office hours today are going to be moved back to 8-9:30pm instead of 5-6:30pm.

10/22/04

Change in Programming Assignment Due Dates

The deadline for programming Assignment 2 has been extended until Tuesday, October 26 at 11:59pm. Programming Assignment 3 (which has not been posted yet) will be due on Tuesday, November 2 at 11:59pm.

10/20/04

Aamir's Office Hours and 10:00-11:00 Discussion Section(10/22/04)

The discussion session 15175 TA (Aamir Hasan) Friday, 1000 - 1100 in ENS 116 has been cancelled (THIS FRIDAY ONLY). The students for this section should go room ENS 115 with TA Jeremy Carrillo Friday, 1000 - 1100.

Aamir's office hours on this Friday (11:00-12:30) ONLY have been moved to Sunday (11:00-12:30).


10/18/04

Programming Assignment 2

Programming Assignment 2 has been posted. It is due Sunday, October 24 at 11:59pm.

10/16/04

Additional Office Hours

Jeremy will be holding office hours on Sunday (10/17) in ENS 507 at 8:00 PM.

10/14/04

Program Submission Instructions

Instructions for submitting the programming assignments have been posted under the Software and Documentation Section of the website.

10/14/04

Change in Office Hours

Vishal's office hours on Wednesday (9:00-10:30) have been permanently moved to Sunday (1:00-2:30). Danny's office hours on Tuesday (4:30-6:00) have been permanently moved to Sunday (5:00-6:30).

10/12/04

Exam Pickup

If you were not in class on Oct. 11 or did not get your exam back, you may pick up your graded exam from Prof. Patt's secretary in ENS 541 during her normal working hours. You must show your id card in order to get your exam back.

10/12/04

LC3 Simulator for Unix

The LC3 simulator for Unix has been posted under software and documentation. To use this version, you will have to unzip the downloaded file and compile the C file into an executable.

10/12/04

Siddharth Balwani's Office Hours 10/12/04

Siddharth's office hours for today have been cancelled.

10/9/04

File Security

A note on file security has been posted under the Software and Documentation section of the website.

10/9/04

Change in Office Hours

Linda Bigelow's office hours on Monday have been moved to Sunday 3:30 to 5:00 in ENS 136, effective 10/10/04.

10/7/04

Programming Assignment 1

Programming Assignment 1 has been posted. It is due Sunday, October 17 at 11:59pm

10/7/04

Linda Bigelow's Office Hours

Linda's office hours for today (Thursday, 10/7/04) have been cancelled.

10/4/04

Solutions for Old Exam 1

The solutions for the old exam have been posted on the Exams page.

10/3/04

Exam 1 Rooms

The room in which students will be taking Exam 1 will be determined by their last names. For students whose last names begin with the letters A-M, the exam will be given in the regular lecture room (UTC 2.112A). For students whose last names begin with N-Z, the exam will be given in WCH 1.120.

10/2/04

Extra Office Hours for Exam 1

A list of extra TA office hours in preparation of Exam 1 has been posted here.

9/30/04

Problem set 4

Problems 9 and 10 on problem set 4 have been postponed. They will be part of problem set 5.

9/30/04

Buzzwords

A list of important words for the first exam has been posted under the exam link on the home page.

9/29/04

Exam Review

The review for the first exam will be on Monday, October 4 at 7:30 PM in Jester Auditorium (JES A121A).

9/29/04

Exam 1

The first exam will be on Wednesday, October 6. An old exam has been posted under the Exams tab on the course web page to give you an idea of the types of exam questions to expect. Bring your UT ID with you to the exam. Without your ID, you will NOT be allowed to take the exam.

9/28/04

LC3 Simulator

The simulator and a link to its manual have been posted under software and documentation.

9/28/04

Problem Set 4

The fourth problem set has been posted and will be due on October 4.

9/21/04

Problem Set 3

The state problem Professor Patt mentioned in class has been added to the third problem set.

9/21/04

Problem Set 3

The third problem set is now posted and will be due on September 27.

9/18/04

Memory cell demo

To view a demonstration of how a memory cell works, click here and save the file to run it.

09/01/04

Problem Set 1b

We have assigned problem set 1b which will be due on September 13. It consists of the problems that were postponed from the first problem set.

09/01/04

First Problem Set

Some problems from the first Problem Set have been postponed. We will be assigning these problems on a later problem set. The postponed problems are 6, 7, 9, and 10

08/30/04

First Problem Set

The first problem set has been posted and will be due on Wednesday, September 8 before class.

08/25/04

Cancelled Discussion Sections

If you are enrolled in sections 15260, 15265, or 15270, go to ENS 109, Friday, 4 to 5pm. If you are enrolled in section 15250, go to ENS 145 or ENS 109, Friday, 3 to 4pm.

07/13/04

Information about the First Lecture

The first lecture for EE 306 is currently scheduled for Wednesday, August 25 at 3:30pm in UTC 2.112A.

07/13/04

Student Information Sheet

Please print and fill out the Student Information Sheet . Submit it with a recognizable photograph before Wednesday, September 8th.