For courses in Logic and Computer design. Understanding Logic and Computer Design for All Audiences Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals is a thoroughly up-to-date text that makes logic design, digital system design, and computer design available to readers of all levels. The Fifth Edition brings this widely recognized source to modern standards by ensuring that all information is relevant and contemporary. The material focuses on industry trends and successfully bridges the gap between the much higher levels of abstraction people in the field must work with today than in the past. Broadly covering logic and computer design, Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals is a flexibly organized source material that allows instructors to tailor its use to a wide range of audiences.
It was alright. My professor forgot to update his syllabus, and so I ordered this edition from 2008. Even considering that, this edition was all over the place and lacked a coherent order.
I'm using the 5th edition for my class, and I need to post this review somewhere because this piece of junk is one of the worst textbooks I've ever had. For visualizing and understanding difficult concepts, this author makes a pitiful attempt. Words take up about 90% of the textbook when there should be tons of diagrams. You end up wasting hours reading long and wordy blocks of paragraphs and not being able to visualize anything he's saying.
I knew that hardware was my weakness, so I studied this entire textbook from cover to cover in the holiday period before the computer hardware course so that I would be prepared. How did that turn out? Somehow my grade for that course turned out to be my worst in my entire time at university! I appreciated the diagrams that show the flow of bits, but perhaps this installed some false confidence in me and not enough real understanding.