Course Outcomes

Course Outcomes (student should be able to...)	Department Outcomes	Course Evaluations
Understand the relationship between hardware and software on a modern digital computer.	2	Exams 1, 2; Homeworks 1 - 6
Convert different types of data into their binary representations.	2	Exam 1; Homeworks 1, 2
Convert Boolean functions to digital logic diagrams.	2	Exam 1; Homework 2
Explain the fetch-decode-execute cycle in terms of registers, buses, and memory.	2	Exam 1; Homework 6
Explain the microprogram for a simple architecture and be able to write microcode to implement a machine instruction.	2	Exam 2
Write, test, debug, and document programs in a machine language and in an assembly language.	1, 6	Homeworks 3 - 6
Describe the assembly and linking processes.	4	Exam 2
Use low-level I/O to program a simple I/O device.	4	Exam 2
Compare and contrast polling and interrupt-driven I/O.	2, 4	Exam 2
Understand how the stack is used in procedure calls.	1, 4	Exam 2; Homework 6