# COMP SCI 252: Introduction to Computer Engineering

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# COMP SCI 252: Introduction to Computer Engineering

Spring 2025 · UW–Madison

This course follows computation from bits and switching circuits to stored programs. The LC-3 provides a small system for connecting instruction encodings, datapath behavior, assembly code, and input/output.

## Topics

- Binary representation and arithmetic
- Logic gates, memory, and finite state machines
- Processor organization and instruction execution
- LC-3 machine code, assembly, and debugging
- Subroutines and device communication

## Notes

- [[lectures/index|Lectures]]
- [[reference/index|Concept references]]
- [[homework/index|Homework and code]]
- [[projects/index|Projects]]
- [[lc-3-tutor|LC3 Tutor course guide]]
- [[textbook/index|Textbook chapters]]
- [[reference/edition-compatibility|Textbook edition compatibility]]
- [[course-details|Course details]]
- [[weekly-schedule|Archived schedule]]

## Resources

- [LC3 Tutor](https://lc3tutor.org/)

Instructor material: Jim Skrentny, UW–Madison, © 2020–2025. Textbook: Yale N. Patt and Sanjay J. Patel, *Introduction to Computing Systems*. Original course documents, textbook extracts, and student work are private study materials.