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Re:If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it ... by rayiner on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:20PM (#8148530)
At least at GT 10 years ago, a machine architecture course (starting with logic gates, moving on to MIPS assembly, then CPU architecture) was pretty early in the CS curriculum. Seems pretty essential, is it not common?
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Re:If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it ... by nesyt on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:37PM (#8148650)
At Utah (graduated three months ago) we were required to take one class that used MIPS and another class that used x86 (the compilers class was optional). They were great, and I agree seem pretty essential.
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Re:If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it ... by Psyonic on Thursday August 07, 2014 @03:01PM (#8149470)
Good to see other Utes on here :)
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