DPST1092 Notices

Getting check to work in the practice prac

Posted by Angela Finlayson Thursday 03 December 2020, 01:01:48 PM.

Hi. A few people have been trying to run check with the practice exams. Here are some tips

So for example for Practice Prace Exam 1

chmod u+x exe

Edit exe to:

~dp1092/bin/spim instead of /home/class/bin/spim

Then edit tests/1.sh to ./exe instead of exe

Then edit tests/2.sh to ./exe instead of exe

Then run

./check q1

Solutions for 18s1 past paper

Posted by Angela Finlayson Thursday 03 December 2020, 11:04:25 AM.

Are available now! Hope your studying is going well!

On campus and live streamed Workshop tomorrow!

Posted by Angela Finlayson Tuesday 01 December 2020, 06:05:50 PM.

Hi everyone. I hope study and exams are going well!

Tomorrow we have our on campus workshop from 12:30-2:30 in L5 W301. This is also being live streamed online on collaborate

We will be going over a past exam from 18s1 and answering any other questions you may have.

Note: the 18s1 past paper is available on the sample exams page. The solutions will be released tomorrow after the workshop.

Consultation Hour today at 5pm

Posted by Angela Finlayson Monday 30 November 2020, 01:58:22 PM.

Just a reminder we have a consultation today at 5pm. See you there.

Assign 2 ready to collect and Class Marks Finalised

Posted by Angela Finlayson Friday 27 November 2020, 12:10:42 PM.

Congratulations on doing such great work with assign2. It is ready to collect. You can also see your total class mark for the course which is out of 40. Please email if you have any questions.

Quiz Marks and Revision Material

Posted by Angela Finlayson Thursday 26 November 2020, 11:12:27 AM.

Hi everyone. Please check your QuizTotal marks and email me ASAP if you think something is wrong.

Also the revision material and solutions and kahoot quiz can be found in the week 12 lecture section. Email me if you have any questions.

Hope your study week is going well!

Lab Marks and Online Theory Revision Workshop today!

Posted by Angela Finlayson Wednesday 25 November 2020, 09:15:22 AM.

Hi everyone.

Your LabTotal mark has been finalised. Please check and email before Friday this week if you think there is an issue.

Today at 4pm on collaborate I am running a theory revision workshop, including revision theory Kahoot quizzes. Hope to see you there :)

Quiz 5, Consultation, Theory Revision Online Workshop and On Campus Workshops

Posted by Angela Finlayson Monday 23 November 2020, 11:15:44 AM.

Hi everyone, hope you all went well with assignment 2.

Don't forget the final quiz (quiz 5) is due tonight.

There is also an online consultation tonight from 5-6pm . This is a good chance to get any outstanding labs marked.

On wednesday at 4pm we are running an online theory revision workshop and Kahoot Quiz.

Also you can sign up for the on campus exam workshops on the Moodle Diploma Hub now! These will also be live streamed for students who can't make it into campus.

Prac Exam results and Lecture Tomorrow

Posted by Angela Finlayson Wednesday 18 November 2020, 07:35:39 PM.

Hi everyone. Well done to everyone who did the practice test today. It is great preparation for the actual exam, so please use it as a learning experience. They have been marked and you can see your marks (but you can not collect your submission). Note that in this practice exam your submissions have been auto-marked only. In the actual final exam we will also hand mark submissions and give partial marks for your solutions.

Tomorrow in the lecture we are doing revision, including going over the practice exam questions.

See you tomorrow!!

Practice Exam During Lab on Wednesday will be on Zoom

Posted by Angela Finlayson Tuesday 17 November 2020, 08:01:14 AM.

On Wednesday at 2pm, please go to this zoom link instead of collaborate.

https://unsw.zoom.us/j/88442702840

We will be running this practice exam like a final exam, so please do not be late and be ready to have your camera on.

Consultation Hours next week

Posted by Angela Finlayson Friday 13 November 2020, 01:52:34 PM.

Hi everyone.

Next week we have our usual

Monday 5pm consultation

and also and extra consultation

Friday 9am

This is for help with assignment 2, labs, lab marking, exam preparation etc.

Lab Marks

Posted by Angela Finlayson Wednesday 04 November 2020, 04:45:08 PM.

Hi everyone. Please check your lab marks. If you have any marks that have a ? in there, you MUST turn up to the lab next week and get them marked, otherwise you will receive 0 for those labs. Please email me if you have any questions.

Assignment 1 has been marked

Posted by Angela Finlayson Thursday 29 October 2020, 07:54:25 PM.

Hi everyone. Assignment 1 marks are out and you can collect your assignment. Please email me if you have any questions or think there have been any issues with your marks.

Quiz 3 and Assignment 2

Posted by Angela Finlayson Friday 23 October 2020, 12:53:25 PM.

Hi everyone.

Assignment 2 is out. We will discuss it in lectures on tuesday, so please read the specification before then so you will have all your questions about it ready.

Quiz 3 will be released next week on wednesday morning at 9am will be due on Sunday 1st by 11:59:59.

See you in the today's 2pm lecture where we will continue talking about virtual memory.

sllv operation in SPIM manual

Posted by Angela Finlayson Monday 19 October 2020, 10:50:52 AM.

Hello everyone, I have updated the spim manual for sllv it should be as follows:

Apologies for any confusion this has caused. Please email me if you would like more information.

Constants in Assignment 1

Posted by Angela Finlayson Sunday 18 October 2020, 12:47:42 PM.

In assignment 1. There is a little bit of confusions about the use of the following in cellular.s

MIN_WORLD_SIZE = 1

MAX_WORLD_SIZE = 128

MIN_GENERATIONS = -256

MAX_GENERATIONS = 256

MIN_RULE = 0

MAX_RULE = 255

These are not global variables. They are not in the .data section. They are like #define in our C programs.

So to use them you don't do things like

lw $t0, MAX_RULE #WRONG

you would just do

li $t0, MAX_RULE #RIGHT

Assignment 1 autotests

Posted by Angela Finlayson Thursday 15 October 2020, 05:11:03 PM.

Hi everyone.

You can run the autotests without using give by typing

~dp1092/bin/autotest assign1

Consultation Friday at 9am and extension on lab7

Posted by Angela Finlayson Tuesday 13 October 2020, 03:41:40 PM.

Hi everyone.

There will be a consultation on Friday at 9am this week. There will also be an extension on lab07. You will have an extra week to complete it, but there will also be a lab08 due at the same time so you will need to manage your time accordingly.

Consultation Hour on Friday at 9am

Posted by Angela Finlayson Wednesday 07 October 2020, 07:04:12 PM.

There is a consultation on at 9am on Friday this week.

Consultation Hour Tuesday 4:30 - 5:30 pm

Posted by Angela Finlayson Tuesday 06 October 2020, 11:14:12 AM.

Hi everyone. The consultation time for today has changed and will be on from 4:30-5:30pm.

We will also organise another consultation hour for some time to be advised on friday.

Daylight Savings

Posted by Angela Finlayson Tuesday 06 October 2020, 08:54:59 AM.

Hello everyone,

Don't forget we are on daylight savings time now, so the lecture starts in 5 minutes!

Consultation Hour on Tuesday 5-6pm

Posted by Angela Finlayson Saturday 03 October 2020, 01:48:14 PM.

Hi everyone.

Due to the public holiday on monday there will be no consultation hour on monday, instead we are holding one on tuesday from 5-6pm.

I hope you are all having a great long weekend!

Assignment 1

Posted by Angela Finlayson Monday 28 September 2020, 03:52:29 PM.

Hello everyone.

Assignment 1 is out and we will be discussing it in tomorrow's lecture, along with functions in MIPS and if time permits, arrays in MIPS

See you tomorrow.

Notice of upcoming system outage

Posted by Angela Finlayson Friday 25 September 2020, 05:27:48 PM.

Hi everyone.

Just letting you know that CSE is upgrading some of its network infrastructure this weekend.

This Sunday, 27th September, from 9am to 1pm Sydney AEST, many services such as VLAB and the Course Website will be unavailable.

Lecture Video

Posted by Angela Finlayson Tuesday 15 September 2020, 05:33:45 PM.

Hi everyone.

I did not quite finish where I wanted to get to today in the lecture. Here is a short 15 minute video on big endian vs little endian. Please watch before the lab tomorrow as it will give you some hints for doing Exercise 1

https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/mod/resource/view....

Consultation Hour Tonight at 5pm with Feddrick

Posted by Angela Finlayson Tuesday 15 September 2020, 11:30:44 AM.

Please attend if you are struggling with the lab. I am also extending the deadline, so you can get help finishing it tomorrow in the lab too.

Consultation Hour Today at 5pm

Posted by Angela Finlayson Monday 07 September 2020, 08:29:08 AM.

Hi everyone.

Don't forget there is a consultation hour on today at 5pm.

You can go along and get help with the first lab if you are having trouble finishing it, and/or ask any other questions about the course too.

Practice Quiz and Lecture Videos

Posted by Angela Finlayson Saturday 05 September 2020, 04:34:36 PM.

Hi everyone.

Don't forget there is a practice quiz that is due Sunday night. It is not worth any marks, but is good practice for the next quiz that IS worth marks

Lab2 has been released

In the lecture session on webcms (and also on Moodle) there are 2 optional lecture videos on Makefiles and gdb (debugging) for students wishing to know more about those important tools.

Lecture Tomorrow Morning and Cse shutdown

Posted by Angela Finlayson Wednesday 02 September 2020, 12:35:36 PM.

Hi everyone.

For this week only there is NO lecture on Friday. Instead there is a lecture on Thursday morning at 9am (as well as the Thursday 4pm lecture).

Also some of the computing systems will be shutting down temporarily this afternoon at around 4pm (just after our lab). This could include vlab, your cse accounts and webcms. This may last for a few hours.