Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)

Yes as pointed out many times not "computer science" and I somewhat regret the name. However, it came out of me being a teaching assistant for people doing computer science degrees. A surprising number of people got to 3rd year operating systems courses without realising things like 2^10 is a kilobyte, 2^20 is a megabyte, etc. Let alone how a program was linked and loaded. I hope for this to be helpful, there are plenty of similar resources but sometimes the way one person says something resonates more than another.

I deliberately wanted to avoid x86-only to illustrate for similar reasons. Unfortunately Itanium proved to be a poor choice, ARM would have been better, but it gives me something to update if I get time! However, much of the basic content still remains relevant many years on.

Re: Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)

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Post by smitty1e » Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 2:04 AM UTC

Seems an excellent place to mention http://linuxfromscratch.org/

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Post by dang » Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 2:06 AM UTC

delsarto wrote: post #4

Author here ... Yes as pointed out many times not "computer science" and I somewhat regret the name. However, it came out of me being a teaching assistant for people doing computer science degrees. A surprising number of people got to 3rd year operating systems courses without realising things like 2^10 is a kilobyte, 2^20 is a megabyte, etc. Let alone how a program was linked and loaded. I hope for this to be helpfu…

What year should we put up there?

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Post by yellow_lead » Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 2:11 AM UTC

This looks like a great resource. I wish I had it for my OS class.

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Post by yellow_lead » Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 2:14 AM UTC

delsarto wrote: post #4

Author here ... Yes as pointed out many times not "computer science" and I somewhat regret the name. However, it came out of me being a teaching assistant for people doing computer science degrees. A surprising number of people got to 3rd year operating systems courses without realising things like 2^10 is a kilobyte, 2^20 is a megabyte, etc. Let alone how a program was linked and loaded. I hope for this to be helpfu…

Looks like someone has vandalized your guide.

> Reordering

> This bit is crap

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Post by delsarto » Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 2:18 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #6

delsarto wrote: post #4

Author here ... Yes as pointed out many times not "computer science" and I somewhat regret the name. However, it came out of me being a teaching assistant for people doing computer science degrees. A surprising number of people got to 3rd year operating systems courses without realising things like 2^10 is a kilobyte, 2^20 is a megabyte, etc. Let alone how a program was linked and loaded. I hope for this to be helpfu…

What year should we put up there?

2016 probably

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Post by delsarto » Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 2:22 AM UTC

yellow_lead wrote: post #8

delsarto wrote: post #4

Author here ... Yes as pointed out many times not "computer science" and I somewhat regret the name. However, it came out of me being a teaching assistant for people doing computer science degrees. A surprising number of people got to 3rd year operating systems courses without realising things like 2^10 is a kilobyte, 2^20 is a megabyte, etc. Let alone how a program was linked and loaded. I hope for this to be helpfu…

Looks like someone has vandalized your guide. > Reordering > This bit is crap

Yes, it has some rough edges. One lesson you can learn is probably not to write things like this, and just let what you have stand as it is, and incrementally improve it.