The Elements of Computing Systems

出版者:The MIT Press

作者:Noam Nisan

页数:341

出版时间:2005-6-1

价格:USD 50.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780262140874

具体描述

In the early days of computer science, the interactions of hardware, software, compilers, and operating system were simple enough to allow students to see an overall picture of how computers worked. With the increasing complexity of computer technology and the resulting specialization of knowledge, such clarity is often lost. Unlike other texts that cover only one aspect of the field, The Elements of Computing Systems gives students an integrated and rigorous picture of applied computer science, as its comes to play in the construction of a simple yet powerful computer system.Indeed, the best way to understand how computers work is to build one from scratch, and this textbook leads students through twelve chapters and projects that gradually build a basic hardware platform and a modern software hierarchy from the ground up. In the process, the students gain hands-on knowledge of hardware architecture, operating systems, programming languages, compilers, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering. Using this constructive approach, the book exposes a significant body of computer science knowledge and demonstrates how theoretical and applied techniques taught in other courses fit into the overall picture.Designed to support one- or two-semester courses, the book is based on an abstraction-implementation paradigm; each chapter presents a key hardware or software abstraction, a proposed implementation that makes it concrete, and an actual project. The emerging computer system can be built by following the chapters, although this is only one option, since the projects are self-contained and can be done or skipped in any order. All the computer science knowledge necessary for completing the projects is embedded in the book, the only pre-requisite being a programming experience.The book's web site provides all tools and materials necessary to build all the hardware and software systems described in the text, including two hundred test programs for the twelve projects. The projects and systems can be modified to meet various teaching needs, and all the supplied software is open-source.

作者简介

Noam Nisan is Professor at the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Shimon Schocken is the IDB Professor of Information Technologies and Dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

读后感

不知道有多少人像我一样，在看了Shimon Schocken的那个TED演讲之后对这门网络课程产生了兴趣；也不知道有多少人像我一样，坚持做完了整本书的项目。在断断续续3个月的学习过程中，我对计算机有了更加深入的认识，同时，超过1500行的代码和一个个实打实的project给了我前所未有...  

https://github.com/Bozar/Nand2Tetris 前八章习题全部完成，个别难题（ALU、PC、CPU 和 汇编器）代码里有注释。后面四章不打算做了。因为最后几章知识点密度太大，哪怕根据文档写完代码，也没搞懂太多内容。 绝大部分题目都可以独立完成的，只要把书读懂了就行。但是第八章有...  

官方网站，上面有 PPT 和软件：http://www.nand2tetris.org/ Coursera 上的公开课 第一部分：https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer 第二部分：https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2 另外希望大家在看的过程中顺便贡献中文字幕。  

读这本书最大的收获，原来设计一个“从内存中读取指令并执行”的电路并不如想象中那么复杂，用几十个D触发器加一堆逻辑门就能搞出来。 当然，要把这么多内容放到一本书里，必然有很多省略之处。 数字电路方面，模型比较理想化，要想真的用TTL或FPGA实现Hack还有一些现实的困难...  

【缘起】 一直想了解现代计算机是如何构建起来的，偶然间看到 Shimon Schocken 在 TED 的一期演讲，介绍其为学生开发了一套逐步构建现代计算机的课程，该课程让大家了解现代计算机如何从基本门电路开始慢慢被构建。 【体会】 正如本书作者所言，此书强调实践，一味的端着书看是...  

用户评价

了解计算机系统的全貌，推荐给每一个有志于从事计算机行业的同行

自己从构造门开始一点一点的，到构造cpu 按照书中做一遍确实头脑中对计算机的组成有了一定的了解

配合课程使用

硬核CS101，看了一半，准备切换去P&H了

大学时学了数电、模电、计算机组成原理等偏硬件的课，总感觉缺了点什么，三个月前我才知道，答案就是这本书，它告诉我作为一个CS的学生为什么要学习详尽的硬件知识，并把硬件知识同操作系统等课程紧密联系起来。书的内容不深，但很有用处。