Computer Science: An OverviewComputer Science: An Overview truly lives up to its title, providing an introduction to the entire computer science discipline. This broad coverage, combined with clear explanations, has made it the leading textbook for the beadth-first/CS0 course. The text is unique in that it avoids presenting topics from the perspective of any particular programming language. Moreover, the text 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 result is a balanced, realistic picture of computer science, including such topics as programming languages, operating systems, algorithms, software engineering, networking, database design, artificial intelligence, and machine architecture. This seventh edition has been thoroughly updated to discuss important trends in such areas as networking and the Internet, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. Topics added include open-source development, associative memory, XML, and C#. Thought-provoking discussions of ethical and legal issues revolving around computing are integrated into each chapter rather than being presented as separate, isolated topics. |
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... executed ? b . What is in register 0 the second time the instruction at address AA is executed ? c . How many times is the instruction at address AA executed before the machine halts ? 4. Suppose the memory cells at addresses FO to F9 ...
... executed by a machine whose CPU carries out its task by following the algorithm As long as the halt instruction has not been executed continue to execute the following steps : a . Fetch an instruction . b . Decode the instruction . c .
... executed , is affected by executing the structure . As a simple example , if a certain statement about the value of Y is known to hold prior to executing the instruction X - Y then that same statement can be made about X after the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
MACHINE ARCHITECTURE | 17 |
Data Manipulation | 73 |
Copyright | |
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