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Video Lecture (required)
This week your video is about the fetch-decode-execute cycle, and a demonstration on how to use the Brookshear Machine simulator, and a summary of the machine instructions from Appendix C of the book.
Questions & Exercises
Here are some recommended problems to help you further understand this new material. This work is not required. Note the answers are in the back of the book. Most of these questions are quick self-checks, and they're good to work though at some point since they may end up on the next quiz.
- Sec 2.1 : 1, 2, 3
- Sec 2.2 : 3, 6, 7
- Sec 2.4 : 1, 2, 3
Additional Clip
While focusing on the low-level details of machine language and program execution, it's easy to lose sight of why this stuff is so important. Check out this short clip from Dot Diva, a group of female computer scientists working to promote computing for high school girls. They do a great job of showing how versatile the field is!