[alphabeta2024]

I was failing badly in my computer architecture courses. Received a 5% score in one of the mid-terms. Switched from the recommended book to Andrew's book and did nothing apart from read it everyday for 2 hours. Received 100% in the final. Such an amazingly approachable book. :-)

[grugagag]

I had Tannenbaum books in in two of my CS courses too 2 decades back. They were great textbooks, found them quite accessible too

[blast]

Wow. Which book?

[kenniskrag]

One of these: https://media.pearsoncmg.com/bc/abp/cs-resources/products/se...

[jdougan]

Out of curiosity, which was the recommended book?

[trueismywork]

Some horrible local author whose name I now forget. Andrew's book was Structred Computer Organization

[asp_hornet]

Not OP but if it was computer architecture i imagine it would be “structured computer organisation”.

One if my favourite books on computers and looking at the comments, many people here too.

Source: this book got me top marks too