CS107 - Continuing With CS107 Work

Discussion Forum and Myth Access

The discussion forum will still be accessible after the quarter ends, but the course staff is not able to provide course support or monitor the forum after the quarter ends. All Stanford students have access to the Myth machines, and all your files will be preserved if you'd like to save them or continue working on them.

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Floats

Floats was a topic that we unfortunately did not have time to cover this quarter. Floating point numbers are a really interesting topic covering how we can represent fractional numbers in binary. Similar to integer representations, we have to figure out a way to map base-10 numbers to binary. Floats are a great case study in designing a data type and juggling tradeoffs.

Floats Lecture Video

Here is the lecture video discussing floats from a prior offering of CS107.

Floats Assignment

In past quarters, assignment 5 was an assignment on floating point numbers and also an introduction to assembly (which comes before assignment 6, which was our assignment 5). If you're interested, you can find the assignment spec for the floats assignment by clicking here: assignment 5. If you'd like to clone a copy of the starter project to work through on your own, use the following command instead of the one mentioned in that spec:

git clone /usr/class/archive/cs/cs107/cs107.1204/repos/assign5/guest floats-assign5