Computer Science: An OverviewComputer Science: An Overview truly lives up to its title, providing a timely introduction to the entire computer science discipline. Broad coverage, combined with clear explanations, has made it the leading textbook for the breadth-first course. This book provides a balanced, realistic picture that communicates the dynamics of computer science by presenting topics in a historical perspective in which past developments, the current state of the art, and directions of research are discussed. The coverage of topics such as programming languages, operating systems, algorithms, software engineering, networking, database design, artificial intelligence, and machine architecture result in a complete overview of the field of computer science. |
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... Op - code Operand 0011 0101 1010 0111 Actual bit pattern ( 16 bits ) 3 5 A 7 Hexadecimal form ( 4 digits ) The entire machine language of our illustrative machine ( Appendix C ) consists of only 12 basic instructions . Each of these ...
... code generator build a machine - language instruction using the machine's integer addition op - code ; if both are of type real , the parser will request that the floating - point addition op - code be used . The preceding program ...
... op - code 2 , the other with op - code 1. Recall that in the case of op - code 2 , the operand field contains the data to be loaded , and in the case of op - code 1 , the operand field contains the address of the data to be loaded ...