Machine Organization

Download or read book Machine Organization written by Charles P. Pfleeger and published by . This book was released on 1982-02-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is for those who want to know more about the relationship between programs and computers. Introductory programming courses tend to gloss over the internal construction of computers and concentrate on programming and algorithm development. Until people have written a few programs, they cannot appreciate the components of any computing system. Programmers eventually need to know something about the internal construction of the computer. As programmers gain experience, they are likely to ask questions like "Why does my program have to be recompiled each time I remove or insert one instruction?" This book deals with this question, and other similar questions, by helping programmers become more sophisticated, more qualified computer users. This book is intended for a one-semester course in machine organization for first- or second-year computer science students.