>>14285429We're studying ARM which is the chips found in smartphones. But this is a more practical course. We're not studying some super quantum physics stuff. Although the guy who won a Nobel prize for graphene works here, I don't think anyone is doing 3d computing chips here.
>>14285439It's pretty close to computer arcane magic. Each instruction moves a few bytes or performs an operation on a few bytes. It's one of the harder courses. The median grade in the most recent test was about 55%.
0x indicates its a hexadecimal number. Hexadecimal numbers are convenient in assembly/bit level coding because it is much shorter than binary and one hexadecimal digit neatly occupies 4 bits.
