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Professor Peter Buhr, Winter 2018 These notes are incomplete and only cover pre-midterm content. 1. Advanced Control Flow Use breaks and while to avoid flag variables, flag variables are basically gotos since they can be set/reset/tested at arbitrary points in a program Don’t do things like for (;;) { s1 if(c1)...

Professor Werner Dietl, Fall 2018 I attended almost no lectures for this course, so notes are organized by slides. These notes turned out to be way more detailed than necessary. Intro software architecture: set of principal design decisions about the system, blueprint for software construction and evolution. It has 3 aspects: structure/behav...

Problem LLVM, which originally stood for Low Level Virtual Machine, was a research project into compiler framework design created by Chris Lattner and Vikram Adve at the University of Illinois in 2004. Today, the acronym LLVM has no meaning and instead refers to a collection of open source libraries that provides compilers, compiler toolchains,...

Chapter 1 - Computer System Overview 1.1 Basic Elements OS: uses hardware resources of one or more processors to provide a set of services to system users, manages secondary memory and I/O devices A computer consists of processor, memory, and I/O components. processor: controls operation of computer and performs processing, (single processor...

Module 1: The Economic Problem Definition of Economics Economics: Social science that studies choices that individuals, businesses, government, and societies make as they cope with scarity and incentives. People have unlimited wants, but resources are finite, so this creates a scarcity. We must then make choices or tradeoffs based on incentiv...

Professor Keiko Katsuragawa, Winter 2018 This course teaches the principles of creating user interfaces (UIs) including underlying UI architecture and algorithms, how to implement UIs from scratch and using UI frameworks, theories and methods for UI design, and an introduction to the field of human-computer interaction. Introduction user...

Professor Lin Tan, Spring 2018 Lecture 1: Intro static analysis: inspecting code in a non-runtime environment for bugs e.g. walkthrough code, code inspection dynamic analysis: monitor system memory/performance and verify that the system has the correct behaviour during program execution e.g. white box or black box testing Lecture 2: Daikon ...

Cryptography I Week 1 Section 1: What is Cryptography? Core Crypto Secure key establishment: Alice and Bob agree on a shared key and have verified each others identities Cryptography can be used for secure communication, digital signatures, anonymous communication, and anonymous digital cash. These are topics which we will explore more late...