CS:APP Lab Overview

• Class tested at Carnegie Mellon. The authors developed and refined the labs over a period of 4 years, on classes of 150 students. The course gets high evaluations from the students, who typically cite the labs as the reason they love the course.
• Automatic testing and evaluation drivers. Students develop their solution in a C file, which they then link into a C driver program. The driver runs their solution, checks for correctness, and produces a quantitative evaluation of their solution. Students use this feedback to incrementally refine their solutions.
• Solutions. Instructors are provided with complete solutions for each Lab.
• Perl autograders. Each lab (with the exception of the Proxy Lab) comes with a Perl autograder that runs the driver program on each student handin file and prints an ASCII grade sheet for each student.
• Complete lab writeups. Each lab comes with a complete writeup (in Latex) that provides context, step by step instructions, and an explanation of the evaluation criteria.