CSCI260

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Computer Systems and Architecture

Mathematics & Computer Science College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

CSCI

Course Number

260

Status

Active

Course Short Title

Comp. Systems and Architecture

Course Long Title

Computer Systems and Architecture

Course Description

Introduces the essential principles of computer systems and architecture. Explains machine-level representation of data, assembly language programming, von Neumann architecture, and the memory hierarchy and pipelining (including instructions, data, and thread level parallelism). Introduces the UNIX operating system from a user’s and programmer’s perspective, as well as C programming, pointers, and UNIX command line tools.

Min

4

Repeatable

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Course Attributes

CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, ENCO: Minor-Computer Sci Elective, MCOS: Major-Computer Science, MCYB: Major-Cybersecurity, NCOM: Minor-Computer Science, ENCB: Minor-Cybersecurity Elective, NCYB: Minor-Cybersecurity

Equivalent Course(s)

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