College Class Notes

Class notes over two essays in Emerson's "Nature and Selected Essays": Self-Reliance and The Divinity School Address. Gives a general analysis of each essay. Topics include biography of Emerson, transcendentalism, reenchanting nature and bringing it back into our lives, self-reliance, anti-conformism, different ways to reach the truth, believing in yourself, staying true to yourself, sentiment of virtue, divinity is within you, religion should be reformed, preaching is unrelatable to modern p...

These notes cover parts 1-4 of Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes. Topics covered include: rationalism, modernism, how to go about thinking like a philosopher, Descartes' three rules and four maxims on how to think like a philosopher, his revelation on doubting and the "I think, therefore I am" idea, etc.

Class notes over Plato's book "The Republic". Topics covered in the notes: what is philosophy, background on Socrates, Plato, and history up intil this point, important Greek philosophical vocab, key point analysis on the weekly readings of the book, etc.

A MIPS data reference sheet that includes information about instructions, registers, their formats, memory allocation, exception codes, size prefixes

All uploaded computer architecture notes in one package at a discounted price.

Class notes over Chapter 3 of the textbook. Topics include arthimetic for computers, integer addition, integer subtraction, overflow condition, dealing with overflow, discover overflow for unsigned and signed numbers, arithmetic for multimedia

This sheet contains the most important content for the first exam. Topics included are everything relating to floating point numbers and binary addition and conversions reminders

Class notes over chapter 2 of the textbook. Topics include: arithmetic operations, register operands, memory operands, immediate operands, decimal numbers, binary numbers, hexadecimal numbers, octal numbers, number system conversions, signed and unsigned numbers, 2s complement, MIPS R-format instructions, MIPS I-format instructions, MIPS machine language, logical operations, shift operations, AND operations, OR operations, NOT operations, conditional operators, if statements, loop statements, ba...

Notes on how to use MIPS in MARS IDE and how to read MIPS assembly language. Includes reading data section, syscall function, MARS features, MARS tools, running a MIPS program, keyboard shortcuts

Cover's Chapter 1 of the textbook Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface by David Patterson and John Hennessy. Topics covered include classes of computers, history of computers, the seven great ideas of in computer architecture, levels of program code, components of a computer, inside of the processor, memory, networks, calculating integrated circuit costs, calculating performance, calculating cpu time, calculating instruction count, calculating cpi, reducing power, sw...