The course lays the conceptual foundation of object-oriented programming. It covers delegation and contracts, encapsulation and API programming, aggregation and the collections framework, inheritance and polymorphism, all from the client's perspective.

After successful completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:

1. Design cache, memory hierarchy, and virtual memory using different techniques to improve cost/performance ratio.
2. Demonstrate how dynamic scheduling and speculative execution can improve the system performance and explain how it is implemented in modern processors.
3. Evaluate different design alternatives and make quantitative/qualitative argument for one design over the other.
4. Identity the different types of parallelism (data, instruction, thread, transaction) for a given application.
5. Compare and evaluate different techniques (such as multithreading, multicore, or vector) to improve CPU performance

• Section E: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00am - 11:30pm, CB 120