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Synopsis
The reason most students do not understand their first programming language is because they are forced to memorize technical details. They do not understand the basic underpinnings. This book is based on the premise that starting with a high level programming language has its shortcomings. This premise lead to Patt/Patel's "bottom-up approach" found in "Introduction To Computing." This text covers: a switch level abstraction of a MOS transistor, logic gates, latches, logic structures (MUX, Decoder, Adder, gated latches), and finally culminating in an implementation of memory. From there, the book moves on to theVon Neumann model of execution, then a simple computer (the LC-2), machine language programming and then assembly language programming of the LC-2, the high level language C, recursion, and finally elementary data structures. The book establishes a foundation that can easily be built upon.
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The focus of the book is on the fundamentals. The approach of this text better prepares students for later courses in both hardware and software, applications and operating systems, data structures and algorithms, data bases and networks, where an understanding of the basic underpinnings is essential to making the required tradeoffs in all of the above areas.
The book is broken down into two major segments, (a) The underlying structure of a computer, using the LC-2, and (b) programming in a high level language, in this case C.
Because students are taught debugging from the first program they write (in machine language) and are required to use the LC-2 Simulator's debugging tools from the beginning, they are better able to master programming and will be able to complete projects with a lot less help from the TA.
An expanded website for the text includes the Solutions Manual, the LC-2 Simulator, Source Code of the examples, a link to the authors' website and JPEGs of all of the figures. It also contains an updated index for the book, 2 new sections that will be included in the second edition, a message board, lab manuals for both versions of the LC-2, as well as two sets of PowerPoint presentations created by instructors using the book in their course.
A FREE CD-ROM is included with the book. The CD contains the LC-2 Simulator for use with the text.
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Introduction to Computing Systems
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe, 2001
ISBN 10: 0071181806
ISBN 13: 9780071181808
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