% Author: Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com
% Date: Winter 2011 - January to April 2011 - Updated 2011-04-22 13:34 EDT
% Title: Week 14 Notes for DAT2343 - Winter 2011

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Final Exam Instructions
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-   The Final Exam date is posted on the [Course Home Page].
-   For full mark credit, read the [Test Instructions] for important
    directions on how to enter your answers on the mark-sense forms.

Lecture Notes for This Week
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-   **review for Final Exam**

From the Internet
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-   *“Your future as a computer programmer seemed fated by the timing of your
    entry into adulthood.”*
    <http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/dreamjobs/dreamjobs5.html> “Dream Jobs
    That You’re Glad You Didn’t Pursue.”

-   Vote May 2! RMR <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWtXc2dUHw>

-   Vote May 2! uOttawa VOTE MOB <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dzt-kuSjJE>

-   Vote May 2! leadnow.ca <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jISlelzxKyI>

-   Vote May 2! Net Neutrality
    <http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/10/canadas-new-democrat-1.html>

-   Vote May 2! Network Surveillance
    <http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/10/canadian-tories-camp.html>

-   Vote May 2! Fair Vote <http://www.fairvote.ca/>

-   Vote May 2! Parliamentary Procedure
    <http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/2010wintergames/Gardner+going+reward+contempt+Parliament/4564215/story.html>

-   Vote May 2! Press Centre
    <http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2007/10/15/media-pm.html>

-   Vote May 2! Auditor General
    <http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/11/cv-election-weston-ag-fraser.html>

-   Vote May 2! Mean People
    <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHl_Oi-u7rs&feature=player_embedded#at=157>

From the Classroom Whiteboard/Chalkboard
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-   Your in-class notes go here.

Some Final Exam Topics
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-   See previous midterm tests in the [Course Notes]

-   Using 12-bit arithmetic: Indicate by check marks the correct “ON” states
    of the Zero, Carry, Sign, and Overflow flags after the given arithmetic.
    Indicate by check marks if the 12-bit result is correct for signed two’s
    complement arithmetic (OKSIGN) and/or correct for unsigned arithmetic
    (OKUNSIGN) Leave flags that are OFF blank.

-   conversion from hex to unsigned, signed, sign/magnitude, excess-127,
    ASCII

-   conversion from decimal to binary (signed, unsigned)

-   CPU cycle time vs. clock frequency

-   Parity

-   Powers-of-two (how many items for 13 bits?)

-   IEEE 754 single-precision: range and precision, sign bit

-   Hex Dumps: interpretation, decoding, endian

-   Characters: UTF-8 vs. ASCII vs. Unicode, Seven Famous ASCII Characters

-   Characters: line ends in text files (Unix/Mac/DOS)

-   Endian-ness

-   Boolean Operators: AND, OR, XOR, NOT, left-shift, arithmetic right shift

-   Boolean Logic: deMorgan, etc.

-   LMC: machine code to assembly language and vice-versa

-   LMC: pseudocode to assembly language (without optimization)

-   LMC: relocation, linking, loading

-   LMC: odometer mathematics, Zero, Positive, Negative flags

-   LMC: Instruction Cycle

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