| Computer organization | |||||||||||
| What is it? | |||||||||||
| -- computer architecture | |||||||||||
| programmer's view of the machine | |||||||||||
| data representation and operations | |||||||||||
| -- computer organization | |||||||||||
| structural relationships not visible to the programmer | |||||||||||
| Why study it? (Top 5 List) | |||||||||||
| -- you want to be a computer scientist | |||||||||||
| -- it makes you a better programmer | |||||||||||
| -- performance: programming is more than just getting the answer | |||||||||||
| (covered more in 411) | |||||||||||