Quote (irimi @ Oct 1 2012 03:12am)

Heh if you want to learn the layer between hardware and software, assembly is pretty high level already. ;P

Computer architecture and signal processing is where you learn the meeting of hardware and software.  Though most of the latter is simply getting you to 1's and 0's from electrical signals and how you get the basic building blocks (gates), whereas the former is where you actually cover how you turn those 1's, 0's, and gates into meaningful calculations.  Which is still a far, far cry from assembly language --- let alone the level of programming that C is generally in.

Quote (Eep @ Oct 1 2012 12:16pm)

ah. Can you take comp. architecture classes in the CS degree usually? Or is it that reserved for computer engineering only.

Quote (irimi @ Oct 1 2012 04:09pm)

at my university, it was a core prereq for all cs and ee majors.

Quote (irimi @ Oct 1 2012 03:09pm)

at my university, it was a core prereq for all cs and ee majors.

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CMP SCI 2700 Computer Organization and Architecture (3) Prerequisite: CMP SCI 2250. Introduces details of computer systems from architectural and organizational points of view. Covers data representation, basic digital logic circuits, memory types and hierarchies, I/O and storage devices, CPU architectures such as RISC, CISC, parallel, and multi-core.

CMP SCI 2750 System Programming and Tools (3) Prerequisite: CMP SCI 2250. Covers systems programming, scripting, libraries,
utilities, and development tools. Additional programming topics include piping, binary files, exception handling, command-line arguments and symbolic debugging. This course also explores tools available in the Unix/Linus environments.

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CMP SCI 4280 Program Translation (3) Prerequisites: CMP SCI 2700, CMP SCI 2750, and CMP SCI 4250. Focuses on methods, techniques, and mechanisms used to create the abstraction from high level programming to machine level execution. This course also requires an individual, semester long project.

Quote (irimi @ Oct 2 2012 03:56am)

Comp Sci 2700 is the one you want - at least if you're looking for something closest to MIT's 6.004.

Comp Sci 2750 is basically sysadmin stuff and can easily be considered to be not even computer science.... it's Unix/Linux For Dummies.

Comp Sci 4280 looks like a compilers class.