Welcome to the Introduction to Computing Systems course! This course aims to teach you what a computer is and how it can be programmed. In this course, you will learn about the basic building blocks required to understand the structure of a computer. You will gain insights into numbers, bits, structures to implement operations on numbers, and structures to control the execution of commands by a computer. This course introduces you to logic gates and combinational and sequential circuits. You will learn about a simple processor design with a small instruction set architecture. You will also perform basic assembly programming with that processor. This course covers a wide variety of topics in computing systems that are designed to give you an overview of what’s to come in the BITS Pilani BSc Computer Science degree program.
Introduction to Computing Systems
Instructors: Nishit Narang
Access provided by New York State Department of Labor
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What you'll learn
Outline the high-level structure of a computer and identify its basic building blocks.
Use combinational and sequential circuits built using logic gates to design the basic building blocks of a computer.
Examine a processor with a simple instruction set architecture and develop simple assembly language programs.
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