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• This is completely nit-picky, but the readings in the textbook for caching did not completely align—fully associative memory wasn't covered until later in Ch5, not 5.3

• Add an explicit, "week 0" (i.e. pre-class) software engineering primer (C/C++, make, linkers, git, etc)
• Consider explicit 'cite your sources' model for programming assignments
• Remove Jupyter completely (or at minimum fix the root issue...)
• Release assignments as git repos to fork
• Time checkpoints in lab (automate?); balance solution release; etc

@ccrutchf feel free to add to issue as you think of stuff

Add octet vs byte discussion to HW1

No, Octal is a notation thing (in the same way that you can write a number in binary, decimal, or hex, you can also write it in octal, i.e. base eight).

Octet just means ‘set of eight’. Way back in the day, the size of a byte varied (indeed, there were still machines shipping in the early 2000’s where one byte != eight bits).

Networking necessarily needed to talk between different machines, so if they describe protocols in terms of number of bytes, it would be ambiguous how many bits were actually being sent. An ‘octet’ means a ‘byte which is made of eight bits’.