The Elements of Computing Systems
by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
Publisher: MIT Press 2005
ISBN/ASIN: 0262640686
ISBN-13: 9780262640688
Number of pages: 410
Description:
The book exposes students to a significant body of computer science knowledge, gained through a series of hardware and software construction tasks. These tasks demonstrate how theoretical and applied techniques taught in other computer science courses are used in practice.
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