A graduate school survival guide: Brief description A computer science graduate school survival guide, intended for prospective or novice graduate students. This guide describes what I wish I had known at the start of graduate school but had to learn the hard way instead. It focuses on mental toughness and the skills a graduate student needs. The guide also discusses finding a job after completing the Ph.D. and points to many other related web pages. "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!
" a.k.a. "Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn't learn until later. " The 4th guide in the Hitchhiker's guide trilogy (and if that doesn't make sense, you obviously have not read Douglas Adams) by Ronald T. V. 1.08 Original version 1997, last revised January 2003 Introduction "To know the road ahead, ask those coming back In February 1995, on a beautiful sunny day with clear Carolina blue skies, I turned in the final, signed copy of my dissertation.
Very little of this guide discusses technical matters. List of algorithms. TestMagic Forums - View Single Post - Advice needed for GRE CS p. Memory-mapped I/O. Port-mapped I/O often uses a special class of CPU instructions designed specifically for performing I/O, such as the IN and OUT instructions found on microprocessors based on the x86 and x86-64 architectures. These two instructions can copy one, two or four bytes (outb, outw, outl) between the EAX register or one of that register's subdivisions on the CPU and a specified I/O port which is assigned to an I/O device. I/O devices have a separate address space from general memory, either accomplished by an extra "I/O" pin on the CPU's physical interface, or an entire bus dedicated to I/O.
Because the address space for I/O is isolated from that for main memory, this is sometimes referred to as isolated I/O. Overview[edit] A device's direct memory access (DMA) is not affected by CPU-to-device communication methods, like memory mapping. Hardware interrupt is yet another communication method between CPU and peripheral devices. Memory barriers[edit] Example[edit] Exhaustive Partial Linear. CS subject test. Table of Contents I. Software Systems and Methodology 40% A. Data organization 1. Data types 2. B. 1. 2. C. D. II. A. C. D. III. A. 1. 2. 4. B. 1. 2. 3. C. 1. A. D. 2. 3. A. I. IV. Appendix Further study Greek letters Mathematics Study guide organization I have organized the information using the topics listed on the insert dated July 2003 that comes with the test registration booklet. A few topics that do not fit into this hierarchy are appended (e.g. Bolded items are in place to allow you to skim the study guide.
Some topics are presented in a less than ideal order. . ⇒ Next section. Important Update: Revisions to the Computer-Based GRE General Te.