Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition (eBook, ePUB)

Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A new and extensively revised edition of a popular textbook used in universities, coding boot camps, hacker clubs, and online courses. The best way to understand how computers work is to build one from scratch, and this textbook leads learners through twelve chapters and projects that gradually build the hardware platform and software hierarchy for a simple but powerful computer system. In the process, learners gain hands-on knowledge of hardware, architecture, operating systems, programming languages, compilers, data structures and algorithms, and software engineering. Using this constructive approach, the book introduces learners to a significant body of computer science knowledge and demonstrates how theoretical and applied techniques taught in other computer science courses fit into the overall picture. The outcome of these efforts is known as Nand to Tetris: a journey that starts with the most elementary logic gate, called Nand, and ends, twelve projects later, with a general-purpose computer system capable of running Tetris.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262361002
• Artikelnr.: 58671622

Autorenporträt

Noam Nisan is Dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Shimon Schocken is Professor of Computer Science and Founding Dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at IDC Herzliya, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
I Hardware
1 Boolean Logic 9
2 Boolean Arithmetic 31
3 Memory 45
4 Machine Language 61
5 Computer Architecture 83
6 Assembler 103
II Software 
7 Virtual Machine I: Processing 125
8 Virtual Machine II: Control 147
9 High-Level Language 171
10 Compiler I: Syntax Analysis 191
11 Complier II: Code Generation 211
12 Operating System 245
13 More Fun to Go 273
Appendices 277
1 Boolean Function Synthesis 277
2 Hardware Description Language 283
3 Test Description Language 299
4 The Hack Chip Set 313
5 The Hack Character Set 315
6 The Jack OS API 317
Index 321