Readings:

• A fun read on how the Raspberry Pi came to be for a taste of the adventure to come.
• For background, review our guides on electricity, binary/hexadecimal numbers, and the unix command line.
• Bookmark this collection of unix video tutorials that were prepared for CS107 students. These videos cover basic concepts, common utilities, development tools, and productivity features.
• I also recommend Steven Wolfram's blog post Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace for a nice description of Charles Babbage's and Lady Ada Lovelace's roles in developing the concept of a general-purpose computer.

• Read Baking Pi ( intro, lesson1, lesson2 ) and skim Carl Burch's Intro to ARM assembly.
• Here is a link to the VisUAL simulator demoed in lecture.

• Before lecture, read/skim sections A3.1-A3.4 and A3.11 from the ARM Instruction Set Architecture manual.
• Our one-page guide to ARM.
• An interactive demo of ARM immediate value encoding. A tribute to how much can be done with just an 8-bit value and barrel shifter!
• Enjoy Danny Cohen's article Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace on the history of little-endian vs. big-endian.

• Review sections A3.2 and A3.3 on conditional execution and branch instructions from the ARM Instruction Set manual
• Our one-page guide to ARM.
• Brush up on C basics (syntax, data types, operators, control structures) via your favorite C reference; sections 1-2 of Nick Parlante's EssentialC; or chapters 1, 2, and 3 of K&R. Skip content on I/O and standard libraries (we are bare metal!)
• Read Dennis Ritchie's account of the history of C
• Try out the Compiler Explorer demoed in lecture
• Read our guides on make and gcc