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Summary: Bridging the Gap
Review: As a student taking a technical look at computers from a non technical background this book dances the fine line of too little detail, and being too technical. I recomend it highly, and use it frequently as a reference around the office.
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Summary: Bridging the Gap
Review: As a student taking a technical look at computers from a non technical background this book dances the fine line of too little detail, and being too technical. I recomend it highly, and use it frequently as a reference around the office.
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Summary: Confusing and hard to understand
Review: As others have pointed out, this is definitely not a book for beginners. But what's worse is that its not very well written. The phrases and sentences are sometimes confusing. While some appear to be good examples, usually they are not well explained. I hate to be this harsh, but the book often has sentences for the sake of having sentences! I would not recommend this book to anyone other than someone who wants a quick reference of IS architecture. There are other books that do a better job of explaining this subject.
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Summary: Poor explaination
Review: I finds that the explaination of computer functions and elements in this book is poorly done. It is difficult to understand the author's logical thinking. The author tried to write the book for IT beginner while assuming that the reader understand deep level of computer operations.
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Summary: The Architure of computer hardware and system software..
Review: I'm studying BEng Computer Systems Eng, and this book is the best book that I've ever read - clearly explain thoughout from hardware system to software engineering. It covers most of things you need to know about computer. I mean as a perfect introduction. I used this book for my first year since then I get a lot of benefit from it, love it H Q Tran
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Summary: pretty good
Review: If you're studying Business IT or a similar subject this is an excellent book with coverage of all the core subjects you will need to know about hardware in an IT environment. A good alround book I am currently using a library copy to revise from.
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Summary: Not that user friendly
Review: I`m a 2nd year computing student at university, and this is the prescribed text on the subject of Computer Organisations.
On my account there has been several disadvantages upon normal standards, Firstly, the authors discribes a simple process in a really long winded manner, makingit a bit confusing to the beginner in the subject. Then the price of this book costs a bombshell for us students, i would recommend publishing a paperback version to save up costs on publishing, and there fore reduce the selling cost for this book . The book (not suprisingly) really heavy and bulky to carry around,(this would be perfect for you weightlifting guys carrying weights(i give it an additional star for helping me to exercise my muscles) as this book could be your useful tool to it. My opinion, the author should compress the information and get straight to the point when explaining a particular matter in order to reduce the number of pages.
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Summary: Hard to read, not for beginners
Review: The book is difficult to read and is definitely not aimed at beginners. Complex concepts are addressed without solid support for the lower-level concepts of which they are comprised. In effect, the book takes a complex subject, throws acronyms and abbreviated concepts at it, then moves on. Additionally, the glossary is not well-organized and the book has quite a few typographical errors.
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Summary: Too hard!
Review: The is the required textbook for one of my papers( i was doing Software Engineering program), I found it is hard to understand and there are few example, even if there are some examples, i just cannot understand,quite confusing! I finally gave up that paper and changed to another program :P
Maybe you should find this book quite easy.
It's not my cup of tea though!
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Summary: Complete, Thorough, and not for Beginners
Review: This book extensively covers the topics in depth, and does a good job at making a complicated subject easy to understand. While for the most part Irv does a good job of communicating technical material in an easy to understand manner, you can only simplify technical details so much, and this book is certainly not for beginners. After taking the author's class in the subject, I've come to understand that by the end of the book you might hate the author, but at least you'll learn something. One of the more challenging subjects, but you can learn a great deal from this book. Because it's a book in architecture, however, it's important to keep in mind that a great deal of this book is theoretical and not specifically practical to everyday computer usage.
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