Student resources

presentations

Recitation slides, worked examples, and a little room to experiment.

Computer Architecture

CS 211 / Fall 2026

Recitation 01

The HW1 reminder, connecting through SSH, and the bitwise operations behind HW2.

Recitation 03

Build and decode normal and subnormal values in a small floating point format, with practice, worked answers, and an HW3 preview.

Recitation 04

A compact review of floating point, x86-64 assembly, memory, arrays, the stack, and the heap, with binary and hex conversion.

Recitation 05

Opening your unique bomb, inspecting assembly, and using GDB breakpoints, registers, and memory commands.

Recitation 06

Practice with stack and heap lifetimes, allocation sizes, structs, unions, alignment, floating-point values, and stack exhaustion.

Recitation 07

Worked float and union examples, pointers, stack and heap, assembly, integer representations, digital logic, and a brief pipeline review.