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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9780130340740
ISBN: 013034074X
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1304
Publication Date: 2002-08-23
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Editorial Reviews:
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This book explains the important and enduring concepts underlying all computer systems, and shows the concrete ways that these ideas affect the correctness, performance, and utility of application programs. The book's concrete and hands-on approach will help readers understand what is going on “under the hood” of a computer system. This book focuses on the key concepts of basic network programming, program structure and execution, running programs on a system, and interaction and communication between programs. For anyone interested in computer organization and architecture as well as computer systems.
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Summary: Good product
Comment: Delivery took a while, but the book was in good condition other than a few marks made in it.
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Summary: Good Textbook
Comment: Purchased this for a computer science course since it was required. Great price at Amazon!
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Summary: Needs a good instructor to go along with it
Comment: An excellent reference, but it is an embarassment of riches, and as such it can't completely cover every area exhaustively. This would probably be extremely frustrating for a casual reader to absorb. I used this as a text book for a class with an extremely good instructor who backed up the material in the book very well. As such, the class and the book were a joy.
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Summary: Hard
Comment: Even though the topics of this book are absolutely great and crucial for any CS student, I dislike the entire book !, its hard to follow the writer, i find it hard to keep with him !
too many complicated information with either Tiny explaination or more complicated explaination ,
its a very big book with many topics , i prefer reading seperate books with specific topics rather than this book,
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Summary: Nice Book!
Comment: I just completed a college course using this textbook... the course was tough, but the book was very good and useful. This is one textbook I won't be selling any time soon!
The practice problems provided in the book were usually very good, and the programming problems distributed with it were fun and educational, including topics like Buffer Overflows, Memory Optimizations, and Debugging with GDB, among others.
There are *some* problems with this book, but it doesn't suffer from the devastating flaws that plague most computer science textbooks. Some sections lack thorough explanations and examples, and the writting is a bit unclear at times. Some solutions to the practice problems are vague and don't really provide much insight on how to solve the problems. Luckily, these flaws only creep up in a few places.
Compared to most technical textbooks, however, this one really shines. It's not quite perfect, so I think 4 stars is appropriate.
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