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Bits and Bytes

• How do we represent information using electrical signals?

Digital Logic

• How do we build circuits to process information?

Processor and Instruction Set

• How do we build a processor out of logic elements?
• What operations (instructions) will we implement?

Assembly Language Programming

• How do we use processor instructions to implement algorithms?
• How do we write modular, reusable code? (subroutines)

I/O, Traps, and Interrupts

• How does processor communicate with outside world?

C Programming

• How do we write programs in C?
• How do we implement high-level programming constructs?