24 August 2004—Introduction to:
- the topic
- What is a computer?
- How is information represented? bits? bytes? integers? floating point?
- How do computers work?
- What are instructions?
- What is machine language? assembly language?
- What is Instruction Set Architecture?
- What is meant by clock speed?
- What are benchmarks good for?
- What is pipelining?
- What is cache memory?
- What is virtual memory?
- How do disk drives work?
- the deal
- How to get an A? Or at least get past the C wall?
- Read the book!
- Do the work.
- Ask questions.
- Learn to deal with complexity.
- the instructor
- you