LR-0002: CHIP-8 Codebase Audit & Architecture Baseline

The learner has established a multi-module C17 project for a CHIP-8 emulator at /Users/morfes/projects/chip-8-emu/c with modular headers and source files for memory, registers, stack, keyboard, screen, and an SDL2 event loop.

🔍 Evidence

Inspected /Users/morfes/projects/chip-8-emu/c containing include/ headers and src/ implementations with -std=c17 Makefile.
Core data structures (Memory, Registers, Stack, Screen, Keyboard, Chip8) match the requirements in CHIP-8 Specifications.

🚀 Implications for Curriculum

Ground all forthcoming lessons in completing and hardening the CHIP-8 emulator.
Immediate priorities:
1. Lesson 0001 / Toolchain Refactor: Modern CMake with SDL2 resolution and Address/UndefinedBehavior sanitizers (Toolchain Reference).
2. Lesson 0002: Safe Binary File I/O & ROM Loading (Loading ROMs to 0x200 with boundary checks, documented in Standard I/O Reference).
3. Lesson 0003: 16-Bit Big-Endian Opcode Fetching & Bitwise Instruction Decoding (Bitwise Diagnostics).
4. Lesson 0004: Instruction Execution & Dispatch Tables (Jump tables vs direct threaded code).
5. Lesson 0005: 60Hz Timers, Cycle Throttling & Fast SDL Texture Streaming.