Intro to Computer Org.

Intro to Computer Org.

Instructor: Joshua A. HortonTA: Meizhu Liu

Contact Info

Office hours @ E309My email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

Subject line – CDA 3101

Meeting Times

Lecture (you are here)MWF 7th period: 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM

DiscussionNo discussion period this weekW 3rd period: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM

+W 4th period: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Textbooks

Required: Patterson, David A. and Hennessy, John L.

Computer Organization and Design. 3rd ed. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA. ISBN: 1-55860-604-1. (Make sure it has a CD.)

Recommended: Britton, Robert L. MIPS Assembly Language

Programming. Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. ISBN: 0-13-142044-5.

Textbooks (cont.)

Homeworks will be assigned out of the required textbook, and it will be referenced quite frequently.

The recommended book will be useful for the MIPS programming portions of the course. (Summer A)

Prerequistes

Prerequisites: CIS 3020 or CIS 3023 (Prog. Fundamentals)

MAC 2233 (Survey of Calculus 1)MAC 2311 (Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1)or MAC 3472 (Honors Calculus 1)

Familiarity with C or a C-like language (such as Java) will be assumed.

Syllabus

See course syllabus as uploaded on the website.

“Computer Organization”?

How does our programming code actually work?

“Computer Organization”

We “compile” programs so that we can run them.New file(s) are created that are used

to do the actual work.But… what does this “compilation” do?


Different files have different purposes.Some are executable programsSome are plain textSome are imagesOthers are specially formatted data


Programs are yet another kind of data.The processor knows how to read this

“data” as a list of instructions to perform.

Any other data is handled as a result of instructions.


Images appropriated from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpn/sets/72157614835515144/


Instructions

Data

(Input)

Data

(Output)

Images appropriated from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpn/sets/72157614835515144/

Intro to Computer Org.

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