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WCAE '00 Proceedings of the 2000 workshop on Computer architecture education
An active learning environment for intermediate computer architecture courses
WCAE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 workshop on Computer architecture education: Held in conjunction with the 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Effective support of simulation in computer architecture instruction
WCAE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 workshop on Computer architecture education: Held in conjunction with the 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Read, use, simulate, experiment and build: an integrated approach for teaching computer architecture
WCAE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 workshop on Computer architecture education: Held in conjunction with the 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
A survey of web resources for teaching computer architecture
WCAE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 workshop on Computer architecture education: Held in conjunction with the 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
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This paper presents the contents of a Special Topics Class used to introduce undergraduate students to the different approach to learning and thinking found in the graduate level Computer Systems environment. During the first half of the semester, the students received instruction in reading and writing technical documents, and had experience with professor-guided self-study. During the second half of the semester, the students presented an idea for a simulator, built it, and used it to conduct simple experiments. After completing the experiments, they were encouraged to brainstorm variations to the algorithms or architectures they simulated, which would improve performance. Student evaluations revealed that for 50% of the students, their interest in graduate school increased as a result of the class.