Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, Global Edition

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I have only academic experience with C, yet was able to follow along well enough with the examples adequately. There are trivia, blurbs and practical information about IA32 (Intel) architecture and Linux where-ever necessary.

It's also somehow significantly longer, and the 'brain teasers' meant to reinforce learning are either redundantly easy or uselessly bizarre. Fundamental book for computer science students and/or general people that want to understand fundamentals of computer systems: architecture basics such as pipelining and optimization, data representation, virtual memory etc. He spent three years as an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon since 1984. It takes great passion and love for a subject to present it so beautifully in a book, and I will forever owe my clarity on these concepts to them. This is an international edition textbook with identical content as the US version and is usually paperback bound instead of hardcover.

This book focuses on the key concepts of basic network programming, program structure and execution, running programs on a system, and interaction and communication between programs. Using practical examples and problems the book walks the student through all the hardware and software knowledge that is required to understand how a program comes to life on a computer.

I highly recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective for anyone who feel they need a better grasp of these ideas. The authors provide numerous real-world examples and case studies throughout the book, demonstrating how the concepts presented can be applied in real-world scenarios.All the chapters are excellent, except maybe chapter 7 on linking and chapter 8 on exceptional control flow. In 2004, he was awarded the Herbert Simon Award for Teaching Excellence by the CMU School of Computer Science, an award for which the winner is chosen based on a poll of the students.