Computer Systems

Name: Computer Systems
Price: 9 USD
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28h 15m 48s

English

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September 21, 2024

Course description

As software engineers, we study computer systems (or computer architecture) to understand how our programs ultimately work and how the machine expects our data to be encoded. The immediate benefit is the ability to write faster, more efficient, and secure code.

In the long term, understanding computer systems provides even more benefits. Every abstraction between us and the hardware introduces leaks. This course will provide the foundational principles for creating robust mental models and more effective analysis.

We will start with how the machine encodes data, including binary representations such as text. Then we will move on to programming in C and assembly to better understand the interface provided by the computer for executing programs. Finally, we will look at two important aspects for improving program performance: using the processor microarchitecture and CPU caches (memory hierarchy).

The course will primarily consist of a sequence of tasks for each topic. You should aim to solve each task, using provided solutions and additional explanations as needed. There will also be several workshops to help connect the topics.

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All Course Lessons (78)

#	Lesson Title	Duration
1	001 Protobuf varint Demo	57:40
2	002 CSS color convert	36:18
3	003 Beep beep boop	28:15
4	004 Image rotate	57:51
5	005 TCP SYN flood	52:53
6	006 UTF-8 truncate	25:31
7	007 Sneaky NaN	26:34
8	008 Unsigned integers alternatives and overflow (sorry maam)	01:05:34
9	009 Signed integers integers in JavaScript and ones complement Internet checksum	01:15:41
10	010 Floating point IEEE754 structure and safe integers in floats in JavaScript	01:10:39
11	011 Unicode UTF-8 UTF-32 and ugh UTF-16	01:34:22
12	012 What are standard in and standard out	02:44
13	013 Why does a byte have values 0255	04:13
14	014 What do bigendian and littleendian mean	08:08
15	015 Why masking low order bits is like modulus of a power of 2	35:42
16	016 Why do we care about teletype machines	01:29
17	017 Why are some bitwise operations faster than arithmetic equivalents	07:44
18	018 What are file descriptors 0 1 and 2	03:40
19	019 What does it mean for a value to be a certain number of bits	09:20
20	020 What are signed and unsigned integers	10:34
21	021 Why do I sometimes see the sequence rn for a newline	04:05
22	022 What does it mean to flush a buffer	02:17
23	023 Whats the basic difference between UTF8 UTF16 and UTF32	09:25
24	024 Why does one byte correspond to two hexadecimal digits	02:34
25	025 Whats the difference between Unicode and something like UTF8	01:54
26	026 How to remember all the powers of two	03:49
27	027 How do I read a hexdump	06:02
28	028 What is a byte exactly	02:21
29	029 How does UTF-8 encode characters (aka artisinal Unicode sandwich)	10:03
30	030 What is a file descriptor	01:58
31	031 What exactly is hexadecimal	06:13
32	032 What do bitwise and or xor and not do	08:05
33	033 Whats the point of floating point	12:31
34	034 What is the effect of shifting bits	03:57
35	035 How are IEEE 754 floating point numbers encoded (aka why is 01 02 030000000000000004)	20:06
36	036 Hello World	14:36
37	037 Bitcount	23:41
38	038 Fast pangram	34:11
39	039 Dynamic array	43:15
40	040 Varint C extension	50:32
41	041 Basic hashmap	01:21:48
42	042 How do C compilers differ	05:14
43	043 What is a register	06:41
44	044 The generic pointer (void) in C	16:22
45	045 Helping Max rotate bits right	21:05
46	046 Loop syntax in C	05:55
47	047 The C pre-processor macros and conditional inclusion	06:13
48	048 A brief overview of structs in C	15:43
49	049 A brief introduction to Valgrind	16:24
50	050 Type definitions and literals in C	12:07
51	051 A brief overview of malloc and related functions	05:26
52	052 A brief tour of LLDB	33:27
53	053 What happens in the compilation pipeline	10:12
54	054 What is the effect of the compiler optimization level flag	03:43
55	055 Overview of pointers and arrays in C	14:45
56	056 Helping Jessica understand void	39:35
57	057 Assembly Hello world	31:54
58	058 Sum to N	46:27
59	059 Matrix access	15:47
60	060 x8664 pangram	17:09
61	061 Binary convert	09:48
62	062 Cone volume	11:13
63	063 Low level recursion	26:14
64	064 The System V AMD64 calling convention	08:41
65	065 Explaining the terms computer architecture instruction set and microarchitecture	04:27
66	066 Whats the difference between Intel and ATT assembly syntax	08:38
67	067 What are the general purpose registers in x8664	11:37
68	068 What is the fetchdecodeexecute cycle	13:06
69	069 Faster sum	23:21
70	070 Color quantizing	40:57
71	071 Moving beyond the simple fetchdecodeexecute model	32:35
72	072 Grayscale speedup	10:35
73	073 Pointer chase	29:05
74	074 Bogosum	01:00:15
75	075 What is a cache line (brief explanation)	02:16
76	076 Understanding CPU caches	33:24
77	077 Why are there multiple levels of CPU cache	13:47
78	078 Measuring cache performance with perf and cachegrind	13:25

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