What is Computer Organization?

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What is Computer Organization?
This course explains some of what is happening under the covers.
What would you like to better understand of what goes on under the covers?
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Some questions
1. What does a compiler do? What does a linker do?
2. How does arithmetic work?
3. What is assembler language?
4. How does the CPU execute code?
5. How are numbers represented?
6. How are characters represented? How does that impact sorting?
7. In math, (X+Y)+Z = X+(Y+Z). Is that true for the way computers represent numbers?
8. How are parameters passed?
9. How do automatic variables receive memory? How does static memory work?
10. How does recursion work?
11. How do programs actually tell the hardware what to do?
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