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CSCI260

Computer Systems and Architecture

Mathematics & Computer Science College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

CSCI

Course Number

260

Status

Active

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

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

-

Number Of Repeats

0

Equivalent Course(s)

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