Computer Science · Boston College
This course is about how computing machines implement the human-friendly abstractions we express in our programs. It reveals the internal representations of data and instructions, as well as the management of data storage in memory, the coordination of processes, and the interactions between operating systems and the programs being executed. Computer Systems explores system behavior and operations in considerable detail. This greater detail is essential for optimizing program performance, for working within the finite memory and word size constraints of computers, for effective debugging, and
