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Computer Architecture

MIT OpenCourseWare

2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2015–2016 · score 1.5

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MIT OpenCourseWare's Computer Architecture course covers how processors are organized and how software maps onto hardware, including pipelining, caching, and instruction-level execution. It is offered free as recorded MIT course material.

Commenters point to it as a free route into how computers work at the processor level, with one noting their own school course built a processor and an assembler.

CS Fundamentals & Systemsintermediatefreevideo lectures#computer architecture#processors#pipelining#caching#assembly#mit ocw

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  1. Recommendsdmazzonir/learnprogramming2016in “How to understand computer performance with code execution?”

    This is a great question. In order to really understand this you should take courses on Assembly Language, Computer Architecture, and Operating Systems. * From Assembly Language you'll learn how programs in a language like C or C++ get turned into the machine instructions that computers use, and…

  2. RecommendsMoleholer/learnprogramming2015in “ELI14 : Give me the easiest description of how computers work and where programming comes in.”

    You could try searching for Computer Architecture lectures from MIT's website for free and also learn assembly. My school had pretty nice Comp Arc course. We did a processor with circuiting program, an assembler and made pacman with assembly. Gives a good understanding of Computers. Computers are…

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