- “Transistors to Assembly” book stops at assembly or C? Either way is fine. Just double checking. stops at assembly
- “Sidebar Menu” has two sentences with no period at the end. fixed
- Genera: Should “topic” be lowercase? Fixed
- Should “Section” be lowercase? Fixed
- Capitalization in this whole section is strange. Fixed per previous suggestions
- Do we really need the legal “number (number)” scheme? yes, going to keep that style for now
- Should it be “throughout the ages”? fixed
- Need lowercase “abstraction” and “algorithms” fixed
- Section incomplete? Is the “quick question” completable with the given information? removed question and details
- Foundations section doesn’t get highlighted when scrolling to it side-effect of the rendering tool and being at the bottom of the page
- Should be “computing technology” instead of “computer technology”? fixed
- Replace “Next we will need to brush up on our knowledge of” with “Next we will examine” fixed
- Replace “Finally, we will dive down to the lowest levels of computer hardware, transistors.” with “Finally, we will dive down to the lowest levels of computer hardware: transistors.” fixed
- “We'll” -- avoid contractions in formal writing? Should be “we will”? fixed
- Remove the word “those”: “We'll understand how these simple devices create circuits to perform those numeric and logical operations” fixed
- Sentence starts strangely. “How those circuits are used to store information, route data, and ultimately create a microarchitecture that can execute complex programs” Should it be combined with previous sentence? fixed
- The word “finally” is used here but it is also used in the previous section fixed
- Replace “we will use a simple assembly language and development environment to create and run programs.” with “we will use a simple assembly language and a development environment to create and run programs.” fixed
- Don’t use idioms like “behind the scenes” fixed
- Java is not simple. Remove this word. fixed
- “Like Java” should be “such as Java” fixed
- “Like” means “similar to but not exactly”. Change “like If-Else, For and While loops” fixed
- California should be CA not Ca fixed
- Department is called “Mathematical Sciences Department” fixed
- Put a label on “Introduction to computer architecture and assembly language programming”. What is this? fixed
- Section not needed? It’s covered at the beginning fixed
- Replace “In this course, students will peer into the lowest levels of a general-purpose computer” with “In this course, students will peer into the lowest levels of a general-purpose computing” fixed
- “Facebook, the Mars Rover, and a Tesla all have the same basic low-level structure, organization, and tradeoffs” confusing to students. Also missing period. removed
- “Allan Hancock” should be “Allan Hancock College” fixed
- Are SLOs and Objectives required in this book? Do students care about these? removed...and no, students do not care much about them