Use of Plato in teaching computer design

Abstract

CDA 3102 "Computer Organization" was a required course in the Computer Science curriculum at Florida State University, which has just been renumbered and made a part of a required sequence. The course is quite standard in the discipline. It begins with Boolean Algebra, Peano Arithmetic, and number systems, then proceeds through realization of logic gates, design of fundamental circuits, on to registers, adders, etc., and their combination into arithmetic-logic units, control units, memory units, and, finally, the organization of these units into computers of various architectures.