The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture

By Sylvia Bashline

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1449600069
• ISBN13: 9781449600068
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Length: 844 Pages
• Weight: 3.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 2.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Informative

I personally liked this text. It is not perfect, and some sections should be more elaborated, but otherwise it is rather informative. Covers boolean algebra, logic gates, memory organization, and many other good things. It can't be read quickly. You will have to spend time to read carefully. Positive: for the most part questions for each chapter can be answered based on information in the book. In my life I have encountered...

Textbook for Computer Organization class

Depending on the competence of the instructor for this course, this book can be either an extremely helpful supplement or a fairly complex crash course to Computer organization. The first four or five chapters truly hold the bulk of information needed to understand the general concepts behind computer organization. The rest of the book just goes into more detail about most of the concepts explained in the first five chapters...

Great reference and introductory book

I'm a computer practioneer and know a little about computer hardware, but not much. For the novice reader, this book is great! It is written well, and is thorough in its coverage. I think it's a great reference book (even though it was apparently written as a textbook for teaching) and have used it multiple times in my job already.I recommend this textbook for those "beginners" who need a good introduction to computer organization...

Essentials of Computer Org/Arch: It's About Time

As a teacher, I wasn't too thrilled about yet another computer organization and architecture book. However, this one is different. It is written from a computer science point of view and it aimed at a one semester sequence course. After attending SIGCSE, I was aware of the new Computing Curriculum 2001. This book appears to follow that curriculum, even in the amount of hours recommended per topic. If you are looking for...