Computer Fundamentals course

With this course, you will learn how a computer works, it introduces you to assembly-level programming. You will be able to write a simple assembly language program.

At the end of the tutorial, you’ll be able to understand the different types of information which may be stored in a computer memory.

Table of contents

• A Brief History of Computing
• A Chronology of Early Computing
• The Von Neumann Architecture
• Further Progress…
• The Silicon Age
• Languages and Levels
• Layered Virtual Machines
• Digital Electronics in a Slide
• A (Simple) Modern Computer
• Registers and the Register File
• Memory Hierarchy
• Static RAM (SRAM)
• SRAM Reality
• Dynamic RAM (DRAM)
• Operation of a Simple Computer
• Input / Output
• MIPS Assembly Language
• Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
• Number Representation
• Signed Numbers
• Unsigned Arithmetic
• Arithmetic and Logical Instructions
• Conditional Execution
• Loads and Stores
• Accessing Memory
• Addressing Modes
• Representing Text
• Floating Point
• Data Structures
• Bus Hierarchy
• SPIM System Call Codes
• Procedures
• The Stack in Practice
• Fibonacci… in assembly
• Optional Assembly Ticks

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