Both computer design and programming are interfacing disciplines.\u00a0 The activity of computer design includes four phases: architecture, logic design, physical realization, and maintenance.\u00a0 Programming and the first two phases of computer design are quite similar.\u00a0 Logic design is also quite similar to low-level machine-language programming, and it is an observable fact that quite often the same people are good at both.\u00a0 The third and fourth phases of computer design do not correspond to any form of programming, but seem to have a distinctly different nature.\u00a0 Studying mistakes seems to be one of the best ways of learning computer design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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