Re: is there an accessible way to learn Computer organization&architecture?
- From: "Varun Khosla" <varun.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:38:22 +0530
Hi Suzanne,
Nice thing, but I don't have a personal brail printer, let me see
whether I can get them printed from some vi institute around. Has
someone produced an electronically accessible version?
Anyway, thanks for the resource link.
On 12/10/08, Suzanne Balik <spbalik@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here is a website at the University of Washington that has tactile
> versions of graphical images in the textbook Computer Architecture: A
> Quantitative Approach, 3rd Ed., 2002, by Hennessy and Patterson:
>
> http://tactilegraphics.cs.washington.edu/comp-architecture/
>
> Perhaps it would be helpful.
>
> Suzanne Balik
>
> Alex Hall wrote:
>> I am in that class at college, and it is really hard!!! I have had a
>> sighted student use Wiki Sticks to make diagrams of things, either that
>> or thermoform. We are doing caches right now and I have NO idea what is
>> going on, and the stupid textbook makes no sense because the guy reading
>> keeps talking about the diagram he failed miserably in describing. I am
>> glad this semester will be over in a week.
>> To answer your question, you will most likely need sighted help, and
>> help that is very good at describing images and adapting them at that.
>> I wish there was another way, I really do, but the problem with
>> circuitry like this is that it is too small to feel and no one has made
>> a largeer scale model of it to use as a hands-on example.
>>
>> Have a great day,
>> Alex
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Varun Khosla" <varun.lists@xxxxxxxxx
>>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Date sent: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:07:30 +0530
>>> Subject: is there an accessible way to learn Computer
>> organization&architecture?
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Is there any book or anything which is accessible to learn
>> subject
>>> like computer organization and architecture? I'm just leafing
>> through
>>> logic circuits section inclusive of adders, flip-flops, registers
>> etc
>>> and finding myself in serious trouble to comprehending each of
>> them
>>> without sighted asistance.
>>
>>> I googled for the solution but found nothing even somewhat closer
>> to
>>> some sourt of satisfaction.
>>
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