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Can you recommend a book that would serve as a useful prerequisite to CA: AQA? Based on your recommendation, I flipped through the first few pages on Amazon, b

Can you recommend a book that would serve as a useful prerequisite to CA: AQA? Based on your recommendation, I flipped through the first few pages on Amazon, but it felt a lot like Algebra 2 without knowing Algebra 1.

torinmr 9y ago
At my university CA: AQA was used as the text for the second course in computer architecture. The first course in computer architecture used this book: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fourth-Architecture/dp/0123747503/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=E214BA3CMPK44D3AAGXQ https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fourth-A.... If you do get around to reading CA: AQA, you can follow along with this Coursera course (it's taught by the professor I had when I took it at Princeton, and he does a great job teaching it): https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch
- gargarplex 9y ago
  I don't have enough patience for courses. I sort of scan the material for what I really need or want to learn and ignore what's not interesting to me. I can make consistent A's with the benefit of Adderall, but I don't feel comfortable with that. Your recommendation was very useful and interesting to me, and I bought the paperback. I was surprised that it was cheaper to buy a used paperback than to rent it via Kindle for a month.
sidzpah 9y ago
It's another book by the same author - Computer Organisation and design : the hardware/software interface - http://a.co/aQYK7DG http://a.co/aQYK7DG
jdironman 9y ago
If you want a more in-depth look at the book a quick google found me this on the first page results. https://github.com/QSCTech/zju-icicles/blob/master/%E8%AE%A1%E7%AE%97%E6%9C%BA%E4%BD%93%E7%B3%BB%E7%BB%93%E6%9E%84/%E6%95%99%E6%9D%90/Computer%20Architecture%20-%20A%20Quantitative%20Approach%20(Fifth%20Edition).pdf https://github.com/QSCTech/zju-icicles/blob/master/%E8%AE%A1...

torinmr 9y ago

At my university CA: AQA was used as the text for the second course in computer architecture. The first course in computer architecture used this book: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fourth-Architecture/dp/0123747503/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=E214BA3CMPK44D3AAGXQ https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-Fourth-A.... If you do get around to reading CA: AQA, you can follow along with this Coursera course (it's taught by the professor I had when I took it at Princeton, and he does a great job teaching it): https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch https://www.coursera.org/learn/comparch

gargarplex 9y ago
I don't have enough patience for courses. I sort of scan the material for what I really need or want to learn and ignore what's not interesting to me. I can make consistent A's with the benefit of Adderall, but I don't feel comfortable with that. Your recommendation was very useful and interesting to me, and I bought the paperback. I was surprised that it was cheaper to buy a used paperback than to rent it via Kindle for a month.

sidzpah 9y ago

It's another book by the same author - Computer Organisation and design : the hardware/software interface - http://a.co/aQYK7DG http://a.co/aQYK7DG

jdironman 9y ago

If you want a more in-depth look at the book a quick google found me this on the first page results. https://github.com/QSCTech/zju-icicles/blob/master/%E8%AE%A1%E7%AE%97%E6%9C%BA%E4%BD%93%E7%B3%BB%E7%BB%93%E6%9E%84/%E6%95%99%E6%9D%90/Computer%20Architecture%20-%20A%20Quantitative%20Approach%20(Fifth%20Edition).pdf https://github.com/QSCTech/zju-icicles/blob/master/%E8%AE%A1...