CS 447 and COE 447 - Exam 1

CS 447 and COE 447 Exam 1 - Spring 2017 - Sections covered by the exam

All material presented in class and recitation until and including functions (procedures) is covered by the exam. Hint: Work problems! And work more problems! Then work more!! Specific sections covered by the exam are listed below.

A list of sample exam problems and a solution are available. The sample question list includes several programming problems. There are a lot of problems in this file -- try as many as you can. I don't expect you to work them all, but I strongly recommend you read the problems, make sure you understand the concepts being asked about, and look at the solution. You should try to work at least some of the problems.

The programming problems will really help you to learn the MIPS instruction set. There's no better way to learn assembly language (or any programming language) than writing programs! Note: some of the problems are too long to be on an exam, but they illustrate important concepts and instructions.

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There are also a few problems in this set of sample questions. Only the material on problems 1-4 for this sample set is covered by exam 1. A solution is also available for these questions.

Exam covers material from lecture and recitations for January 4 to February 6 (inclusive).

Chapter 1

1.1 Introduction
1.3 Below Your Program
1.4 Under the Covers

Chapter 2

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Operations of the Computer Hardware
2.3 Operands of the Computer Hardware
2.4 Signed and Unsigned Numbers (Only Unsigned)
2.5 Representing Instructions in the Computer
2.6 Logical Operations
2.7 Instructions for Making Decisions
2.8 Supporting Procedures in Computer Hardware
2.10 MIPS Addressing for 32-Bit Immediates and Addresses
Little vs. Big Endian
System calls
MIPS Instructions (only those we've covered, see E.3)