This course does not have a required textbook purchased from the bookstore. Instead, a freely available electronic textbook is used for study.

• C programming language book
• C programming language quick reference sheet
• Windows Command Line C development setup
• MSOE CE2811 Laboratory Nios Computer System documentation

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WEEK	MAJOR TOPIC	READING	GRADED HOMEWORK
1	Basic Embedded Systems Models Basic Structure of C control programs Using pointers to access built-in I/O device registers	C1-C4, Embedded Systems Technote C Fundamentals Slideset	Posted on Friday
2	Writing C device drivers Interface and implementation files (.h and .c)	C1-C4 Device Driver Slideset Initial CE2811 device driver APIs	Posted on Friday
3	C call-by-value and call-by-reference	C1-C4	Posted on Friday
4	C data structures C arrays C enums	C5-C6	Posted on Friday
5	C strings C string processing Using C standard string functions	C5-C6	Posted on Friday
6	C standard I/O C printf function C scanf function	C9	Posted on Friday
7	C99 data types Using C99 in embedded systems software	Lecture Notes	Posted on Friday
8	C compilers C optimizations Makefiles	Lecture Notes	Posted on Friday
9	Mixing assembly language and C Creating personal libraries	Lecture Notes	Posted on Friday
10	Advanced C topics Review	Lecture Notes	None
11	FINAL EXAM	None	None