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Computer Organization and Architecture Review by P. Yang
This author should stick to computers and leave writing to the pros...
Downright awful book. This book assumes a LOT of knowledge and even then, it's still incomprehensible. My professor has a masters in computer science and he admitted he didn't understand most of the diagrams and questions in the book. There are very poor examples, sometimes no examples at all. The book is laughably bad as far as typos go. I have never seen, in my entire life, a book, let alone a college textbook, with as many typos as this book. There are some obvious typos and then there are some questions where part of the question is completely missing from the book! My professor had to tell us the part of the question that was missing! He only found out because the author has a giant list of typos available on his horrible, eye wrenching, ear piercing pre-Y2K website. And this is his EIGHTH edition!!! This was the third different book my professor has tried in his past three semesters and he said that he definitely was not going to use this book again. In fact, he's basically decided to teach all of us himself, with his own diagrams and other online resources, (read: FREE) including an awesome, freely available Computer Organization textbook (search David Tarnoff.) TO ALL PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS OUT THERE: Please, please, please save you and your students time, trouble, headaches and money and stay far, far away from this abomination of a book. To the author/publisher/non-existent editor: please, you should just get out of the textbook business right now. No, in fact, you should just stop writing, period. Be honorable, step down/away and stop gouging students and teachers.