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Homework 1 [Due at lecture on Wed, Jan 30]
Primary contact for this homework: Pradip Vallathol [pradip16 at cs dot wisc dot edu]
You must do this homework alone. Please staple multiple pages together.
Problem 1 (3 points)
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What is the web address of the course home page for your section? (i.e. http://...)
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How many Midterm exams do you have for this course? What are the dates on which they are held?
In what room and building are your exams?
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Do you have a conflict with any of the exams? If so, have you informed your professor about the conflict?
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Do you have a final exam for this course?
Problem 2 (3 points)
(This question has no wrong answers.)
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What is your expected major(s)?
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Have you taken any other Computer Science courses? If yes, please list them.
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What do you hope to learn from this course?
Problem 3 (3 points)
If your friend tells you to, "Go to the library", is it an abstraction?
If so, explain why it is useful for your friend by breaking it down into a few of
its component parts.
Problem 4 (2 points)
What difficulty with analog computers encourages computer designers to use digital designs?
Problem 5 (2 points)
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Name one characteristic of natural languages that prevents them from being used as
programming languages.
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Write a statement in natural language and offer two different interpretations of that statement.
Problem 6 (3 points)
List 3 things specified by an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).
Problem 7 (4 points)
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What is the major advantage of writing a program in a high level language as opposed to writing it in
a low level language?
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What is the difference between an assembler and a compiler?
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How many ISAs are normally implemented by a single microarchitecture?
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Conversely, how many microarchitectures could exist for a single ISA?
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