Computer science

4 weeks in to course and finding it hard to understand especially computer archtecture>>..what can i do?

4 weeks in to course and finding it hard to understand especially computer archtecture>>..what can i do?

The sooner you learn to ask questions and go to office hours, the easier getting through uni is. I personally find that lectures are often based on one particular textbook, and picking up the course text helps a lot if you're not taking the best notes.

"Computer Organization and Design" by Patterson and Hennessy is probably more than enough for a first year course, but "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" covers things in more depth and might last you longer (but don't buy these books -- there'll be copies in your library!)

Feel free to post about anything you're having particular trouble understanding.

what am finding difficult is the binary calculation, how do you work it out especially when putting symbols together to build a circuit

I am studying computer science and am in the first year, I am not very good at programming, should you I carry on to second year; I enjoy designing WebPages should I move to multimedia internet technology???

I personally find that lectures are often based on one particular textbook, and picking up the course text helps a lot if you're not taking the best notes.