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15-213/15-513 Introduction to Computer Systems (ICS)
Spring 2025
12 units
The ICS course provides a programmer's view of how computer systems
execute programs, store information, and communicate. It enables
students to become more effective programmers, especially in dealing
with issues of performance, portability and robustness. It also
serves as a foundation for courses on compilers, networks, operating
systems, and computer architecture, where a deeper understanding of
systems-level issues is required. Topics covered include:
machine-level code and its generation by optimizing compilers,
performance evaluation and optimization, computer arithmetic, memory
organization and management, networking technology and protocols,
and supporting concurrent computation.
Course Syllabus
Prerequisites: 15-122
What's New?
- First day of class is Tuesday, Jan 14th.
Getting Help
| Ed |
Ed |
| Email |
Please use Ed for help, instead of email.
Posts to Ed are private by default. |
| Tutoring |
The Student Academic Success Center provides tutoring for this course. Appointments for one-on-one tutoring can be booked here |
| Office Hours |
TA office hours use an online queue
for both in-person and remote office hours.
- In person: Please specify a room number when adding yourself to the queue.
- Remote: Please specify a Zoom meeting ID and select the REMOTE tag in the queue.
- If you are remote but do not select the tag, we reserve the right to kick you from the queue as we cannot filter your question to the remote TA's.
Faculty office hours will be at the
locations and times listed at the bottom of this page.
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Course Materials
| Schedule |
Lecture schedule, slides, recitation notes, readings, and code |
| Labs |
Details of the labs, due dates, and policies |
| Assignments |
Details of the written assignments, due dates, and policies |
| Exam |
Information about the final exam |
| Lab Machines |
Instructions for using the lab machines |
| Resources |
Additional course resources |
Course Information
| For details |
See the course syllabus for details (below is just a few overview bits). |
| Lectures |
See above |
| 15-213 Recitations |
| 15-213 Section A: | Fri 09:00 AM–09:50 AM | GHC 4301 |
| 15-213 Section B: | Fri 10:00 AM–10:50 AM | GHC 4307 |
| 15-213 Section C: | Fri 11:00 AM–11:50 AM | BH 237B |
| 15-213 Section D: | Fri 12:00 PM–12:50 PM | WEH 4625 |
| 15-213 Section E: | Fri 01:00 PM–01:50 PM | WEH 4625 |
| 15-213 Section F: | Fri 02:00 PM–02:50 PM | WEH 4625 |
| 15-213 Section G: | Fri 10:00 AM–10:50 AM | PH A18C |
| 15-213 Section H: | Fri 04:00 PM–04:50 PM | PH A22 |
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| Textbooks |
Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron,
Computer Systems: A
Programmer's Perspective, Third Edition, Pearson, 2016
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Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie,
The C Programming Language, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1988
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| Credit |
12 units |
| Grading |
Composed from total lab performance (50%), total written assignment performance (20%) and final exam performance (30%).
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| Labs |
There are 9 labs (L0-L8), not evenly weighted. See
the labs page for
the breakdown. |
| Exam |
There is a final exam, held during exam week, closed book. |
| Home |
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213 |
| Questions |
Ed, office hours |
| Canvas |
Canvas will be used (i) to handin written assignments and (ii)
to conduct ungraded, in-class quizzes. Your grading information will be kept up to date
in Autolab, not in Canvas.
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| Course Directory |
/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-s25/ |
Instructors
| Name |
Brian Railing |
David Andersen |
Nathan Beckmann |
Ranysha Ware |
| Contact |
bpr@cs.cmu.edu |
dga@cs.cmu.edu |
beckmann@cs.cmu.edu |
rware@andrew.cmu.edu |
| Office |
GHC 6005 |
GHC 9109 |
GHC 9021 |
GHC 6008 |
| Office Hours |
Fri 12:00 PM–02:00 PM |
Mon 01:00 PM–03:00 PM |
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Wed 01:00 PM–03:00 PM |
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Thurs 01:00 PM–02:00 PM |
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