: Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective (9780130340740): Randal…
Have it on my desk since I bought for my computer architecture course (Csci 2021, Univ. of Minnesota – Twin Cities). Such a cool book to learn how computer hardware and software *really* work together, and why finding that out, could make us a more valuable computer scientist/programmer. Also provides a great hand to get you ready for advanced classes like Operating Systems, Compilers. My favorite chapter in the book is about Caches. It’s unbelievable to first find out how much cached really matter! Thanks Prof. Bryant and O’Hallaron.
I think the first 7 chapters are what the most important to understand and grasp. Rest of the chapters are important too but they usually will overlap with other topics/classes like operating systems. Also, chapter 4 goes in more detail in processor architecure like pipelined CPU and will probably help more to the computer engineer; although computer scientists do learn a lot out of it and will help write code to exploit modern pipelined CPU’s, like the deeply pipelined, Pentium 4. But I think the first 7 chapters are the ones, that sets this book aside from the others. You will need access to LINUX, as most of the discussions rotate around it like the virtual address space, assembly code – GAS and so on use the linux implementations.
After reading, you will be able tp convert decimal nos to binary and even floating point nos to binary format very easily. You will also learn more about twos complement operations and integer and floating point arithmetic, able to understand assembly code (GAS: GNU Assembler code), how procedures are implemented using stacks array allocation, debugging, embedding assembly code in C programs, more about CPU instruction sets and hardware control language and their implementations, pipelining, optimizing programs and expoliting caches, understanding modern CPU’s, various storage technologies, linking, symbol tables, object files, shared object files, and more.
Don’t forget to visit the book’s website before buying the book. It is
Here is a brief look about what it is all about! Chapter 1: A Tour of Computer Systems Chapter 2: Representing and Manipulating Information Chapter 3: Machine-Level Representation of Programs Chapter 4: Processor Architecture [MORE FOR COMPUTER ENGINEERS!] Chapter 5: Optimizing Program Performance Chapter 6: The Memory Hierarchy [COOL ONE!] Chapter 7: Linking Chapter 8: Exceptional Control Flow Chapter 9: Measuring Program Execution Time Chapter 10: Virtual Memory Chapter 11: System-Level I/O Chapter 12: Network Programming Chapter 13: Concurrent Programming
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